Installing Google Chrome & Others in Qubes

[Outback Dingo]

So I guess If i want omething to be persistent in my personal VM it
needs to be installed in the template VM ??
How can i retain my home directory, and files i download like browser
settings, data in my personal VM or just it
just occur??

[Marek Marczykowski]

On 03.10.2012 17:24, Outback Dingo wrote:
> So I guess If i want omething to be persistent in my personal VM it
> needs to be installed in the template VM ??

Yes. There is somewhere Chrome package for Fedora. I recommend also rpmfusion
repository as it contains much more software than standard Fedora one.

> How can i retain my home directory, and files i download like browser
> settings, data in my personal VM or just it
> just occur??

Software installed in Template VM is available in all VMs based on it. But
/home (with all your files and settings) is per-VM, so it will just work as
you expect.

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Best Regards / Pozdrawiam,
Marek Marczykowski
Invisible Things Lab

[Outback Dingo]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Marek Marczykowski
<marm...@invisiblethingslab.com> wrote:
> On 03.10.2012 17:24, Outback Dingo wrote:
>> So I guess If i want omething to be persistent in my personal VM it
>> needs to be installed in the template VM ??
>
> Yes. There is somewhere Chrome package for Fedora. I recommend also rpmfusion
> repository as it contains much more software than standard Fedora one.
>

Great thanks for that, Ill add that repo, now as for all these gnome
based apps by default in qubes?? can i just uninstall/delete nuke them
I hate gnome, its crap. always used KDE

[Marek Marczykowski]

On 03.10.2012 17:41, Outback Dingo wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Marek Marczykowski
> <marm...@invisiblethingslab.com> wrote:
>> On 03.10.2012 17:24, Outback Dingo wrote:
>>> So I guess If i want omething to be persistent in my personal VM it
>>> needs to be installed in the template VM ??
>>
>> Yes. There is somewhere Chrome package for Fedora. I recommend also rpmfusion
>> repository as it contains much more software than standard Fedora one.
>>
>
> Great thanks for that, Ill add that repo, now as for all these gnome
> based apps by default in qubes?? can i just uninstall/delete nuke them
> I hate gnome, its crap. always used KDE

You can install whatever you want. We have tested gnome apps in VM, but I
don't expect any problems with KDE one.
Just remember to add apps to the menu (from Qubes VM Manager).

Ah, one more thing: qubes tools uses zenity, gpk-update-viewer,
NetworkManager-gnome and perhaps some more GNOME-specific app, so do not
remove at least this apps.