Changing Template Name: error this was installed by system

[sevas]

Can I not change the name of my system installed template names?

I really want to change them.

I want to change them to original-debian-9 - original-fedora-26

I am having trouble remembering not to edit the actual original templates
and I find myself often wanting to revert my changes. However Im afraid to
use the qvm command because it put me through a lot of stress last time.

[awokd]

On Thu, March 8, 2018 2:22 am, sevas wrote:
> Can I not change the name of my system installed template names?

If it doesn't let you, you can clone them, then dnf remove the originals.

[sevas]

I just tried to remove some of them.

Well, actually they were a % of a whole backup system qube and I did not finish
the restore.

$ qvm-remove --force-root qubeVM
# Traceback:
File /bin/qvm-remove, line 5 in <module>
sys.exit (main())
/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/qubesadmin/qvm_remove.py, line 47 in main
del args.app.domains[vm.name]
/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/qubesadmin/app.py, line 104, in __delitem__
self.app.qubesd_call(key, 'admin.vm.Remove'

and base.py
followed by error: installed by qubes manager.

Any ideas?

Thanks again.

[cooloutac]

Think in 4.0 it doesn't let you for security reasons. You have to clone it with a diff name.

[sevas]

This became an issue when I have a backup qube called debian-9-1 that will also
not remove.

I have since reinstalled, so no more problem for me at least.

[cooloutac]

On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 9:59:20 PM UTC-4, sevas wrote:

no idea, maybe this will help? https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/remove-vm-manually/

[sevas]

I think that would do it. Thanks. Ive read *almost* everything in the docs and
it amazes me when I see something like this that I somehow couldnt find elsewhere!