Fedora 24 on Qubes 3.1 support, uninstallable packages

[mver...@gmail.com]

Hi, I recently installed the fedora-24-minimal template per [1] and configured all my AppVMs to use a new template based on it. All seems to be working well, except that I am unable to install the following packages:

- ImageMagick
- pycairo

Both are skipped as follows:

~$ sudo dnf install ImageMagick pycairo
...
Package qubes-template-minimal-stub-1.1-1.fc23.noarch is already installed, skipping.
Package pycairo-1.10.0-4.fc24.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Package qubes-template-minimal-stub-1.1-1.fc23.noarch is already installed, skipping.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Sending application list and icons to dom0
Complete!
~$

[2] seems to suggest it should be possible to install these packages, but I also saw a thread [3] that indicates that Fedora 24 may not be supported on Qubes R3.1, and maybe this could be causing the issue. The qubes-template-minimal-stub rpm is the only fc23 package that is installed in the template.

I am planning to reinstall the host with R3.2 at some point anyway, but I wanted to get Thunderbird and Firefox updated to the newer versions in F24 sooner than that, hence installing the newer template first.

The missing packages are not a big deal, but it would be great to confirm the correct process for next time (looking forward to Qubes 4.0!) Is it supported to update to a newer Fedora template and then upgrade the Qubes release on the host, or should the host always be reinstalled/upgraded to the new version first?

Thanks very much for your advice.

Michael

[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/fedora-minimal/
[2] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2380
[3] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/qubes-users/uwnPpxhJaZY/discussion

[mver...@gmail.com]

I've done a clean install of Qubes 3.2 on the host now, and then re-downloaded qubes-template-fedora-24-minimal and set up my custom template based on it. I still see the same issue with ImageMagick being skipped for installation.

If I try to install ImageMagick in the unmodified fedora-24-minimal template, dnf offers to download the 'real' packages. But after using dnf to update all packages, the problem is introduced. The smallest package set I've found to reproduce this is just dnf, ie.

dnf update dnf

will trigger the behaviour. But I'm not really sure where to look next. Any suggestions?

Thanks again.

Michael

[Andrew David Wong]

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See this issue:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2606

You can work around this by specifying the package version, e.g.,:

$ sudo dnf install pycairo-1.10*

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

Excellent, thanks for your help.