Libre Office Base Missing?

[Dogged One]

Was just looking to open a M$ Office Database file and was hoping to do it on Qubes, but I am not finding the inclusion of the Libre Office Base program.

I thought that was part of the Libre Office Suite.  Is this something that will be included in a future release of Qubes or do I need to install it manually, or even can I?

Thankss

[cprise]

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Its not installed by default, but you can add it easily in template or standalone vm with 'sudo yum install libreoffice-base'. Afterward, you will also have to add it to your appvm menus using Qubes VM Manager (under VM Settings, Applications).

[Dogged One]

That was indeed easy enough :)  My understanding is that you don't really want to be installing software on Qubes due to opening it up to potential attack.  Is there a best safe practice to add software to the core template?  Should I, can I, be cloning the default template before adding to it?

[Franz]

Software in default Fedora repositories is signed, so risk is low, but if you need to install  unsigned or doubtful proprietary software, yes it is better to install it in a different template.

best

[rowan...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, 20 November 2014 12:31:36 UTC, Dogged One wrote:
> That was indeed easy enough :)  My understanding is that you don't really want to be installing software on Qubes due to opening it up to potential attack.  Is there a best safe practice to add software to the core template?  Should I, can I, be cloning the default template before adding to it?

In addition to what Francesco said, I find the wiki page at https://qubes-os.org/wiki/SoftwareUpdateVM pretty coherent at explaining the issues.

I'm personally still feeling my way with when to clone a template, currently I have an additional one for the google chrome repo, this makes sense as I only use that browser in one domain, so it seems sensible not to add that additional trust to all domains.

I have yet another with wine installed as it again feels weird to have this software present in all vms.

Keeping all the clones up to date is laborious, so I would be curious as to when others are using cloned templates, the recent discussions on automating template updating seems to suggest quite a few of us may be cloning more than we ought (although this probably has a "be your own bitch" answer coming right to it :) )