Template installation not being reflected on AppVMs

[danmich...@gmail.com]

I am using QUBES 3.0
Fedora-21

When I install certain programs in the template VM for fedora, they do not show up in the AppVMs, even after restarting each of the AppVMs.

I installed google-chrome-stable, and yet, it's not reflected in the AppVMs.

I have to re-install Chrome inside the actual AppVM every time I start it up.

What's up with that...?

[Chris Laprise]

Did you shutdown the template vm before re-starting the appvms?

Chris

[Andrew David Wong]

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Try running `qvm-sync-appmenus <TemplateVM-name>` in dom0.

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[danmich...@gmail.com]

I did both the template VM restart, and the menu refresh, and it worked.

One thing is.. when installing a Debian template, it didn't show up in the menu.

So then I did a menu refresh, and Debian showed up in the menu.

The menu really shouldn't be lagging behind like this.

Should QUBES include a feature that automatically refreshes the menu every few minutes or something..?

It seems as if QUBES should have a background script running that runs:

qvm-sync-appmenus <TemplateVM-name>

every few minutes

[Andrew David Wong]

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I think running it every few minutes would be too big of a performance
hit. However, that command is automatically executed whenever a
template is updated.

At least, I know this happens on Fedora templates. Marek, is it not
implemented for Debian?

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 08:02:46PM -0700, Andrew David Wong wrote:
> On 2016-07-09 04:14, danmich...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I did both the template VM restart, and the menu refresh, and it
> > worked.
> >
> > One thing is.. when installing a Debian template, it didn't show up
> > in the menu.
> >
> > So then I did a menu refresh, and Debian showed up in the menu.
> >
> > The menu really shouldn't be lagging behind like this.
> >
> > Should QUBES include a feature that automatically refreshes the
> > menu every few minutes or something..?
> >
> > It seems as if QUBES should have a background script running that
> > runs:
> >
> > qvm-sync-appmenus <TemplateVM-name>
> >
> > every few minutes
> >
>
> I think running it every few minutes would be too big of a performance
> hit. However, that command is automatically executed whenever a
> template is updated.
>
> At least, I know this happens on Fedora templates. Marek, is it not
> implemented for Debian?

It is also in debian. This is triggered by any package installation,
which updates some menu entries.
If for some reason it doesn't work, take a look at
/var/log/qubes/qrexec.TEMPLATENAME.log (put actual template name instead
of TEMPLATENAME).

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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