qubes Guide to installing Qbuntu (Ubuntu 20.04 - Focal Fossa) TemplateVM in Qubes Release 4.0.4-rc1

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Guide to installing Qbuntu (Ubuntu 20.04 - Focal Fossa) TemplateVM in Qubes Release 4.0.4-rc1

fedora-32 as of this writing, I did this on a fresh Qubes install on a couple year old Intel I7. This is similar but a better less steps way to create this. Xenial guide located here https://blockforums.org/topic/305-guide-to-installing-qbuntu-ubuntu-1604-xenial-templatevm-in-qubes-402-rc1/

Qubes Homepage - https://www.qubes-os.org/

Clone the vanilla Fedora templatevm, allow network access, and private storage max size 30gb, I called my clone ubuntu-builder. Open up a terminal in the ubuntu-builder templatevm.

Import the Qubes master key

gpg --import /usr/share/qubes/qubes-master-key.asc

Verify its fingerprint, set as ‘trusted’. This is described here. https://www.qubes-os.org/security/verifying-signatures/

Download the Qubes developers’ keys.

wget https://keys.qubes-os.org/keys/qubes-developers-keys.asc
gpg --import qubes-developers-keys.asc

 

Download the latest stable qubes-builder repository:

git clone https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-builder.git /home/user/qubes-builder/

Verify the integrity of the downloaded repository. The last line should read gpg: Good signature from…

cd /home/user/qubes-builder/
git tag -v $(git describe)

Run the ‘setup’ script located in ‘/home/user/qubes-builder/’ Make sure you are in directory ‘qubes-builder’

cd /home/user/qubes-builder/
./setup

Y to add whats missing
then yes to add missing keys

select 4.0

stable

dont select current or current-testing

yes (to only build the template)

select focal fossa+desktop with spacebar and push enter

NEED TO CHANGE IMAGE HERE and get all brand new images of the current process, even though its basically the same.

select Builder-rpm builder-debian only, nothing else. (need to update to latest focal fossa image below)

The last step to build took me a little over an hour for the whole thing.

make install-deps
make get-sources
make qubes-vm
make template

We have our Ubuntu 20.04 template, now to install it!

Qubes-builder should have created an install script, let's make sure it exists:
[user@ubuntu-builder qubes-builder]$ ls -altr qubes-src/linux-template-builder/rpm

You should see an 'install-template.sh' file there.

Now switch back to your dom0 terminal, and install the template:
[user@dom0 ~]$ qvm-run --pass-io ubuntu-builder 'cat /home/user/qubes-builder/qubes-src/linux-template-builder/rpm/install-templates.sh' > install-templates.sh
Make the copied script executable and run it
[user@dom0 ~]$ chmod +x install-templates.sh
[user@dom0 ~]$ ./install-templates.sh

#make template (clone) just for denarius, why not
in dom0 terminal emulator

qvm-clone focal-fossa-desktop denarius-crypto

To make the user have a password for sudo. Use this https://www.reddit.com/r/Qubes/comments/e39r8l/ubuntu_1804_lts_template_password/

dom0 terminal (change focal-fossa-desktop and newpassword)

qvm-run -a --user root focal-fossa-desktop "echo \"user:newpassword\"|chpasswd"

dom0 terminal

qvm-run -a --user root focal-fossa-desktop "sudo usermod -a -G sudo user"

shutdown your focal-fossa-desktop and now try

sudo apt update