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layout: doc
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title: Templates
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permalink: /doc/templates/
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redirect_from:
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- /en/doc/templates/
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- /doc/Templates/
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- /wiki/Templates/
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TemplateVMs
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Every TemplateBasedVM in Qubes is, as the name implied, based on some
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TemplateVM. The TemplateVM is where all the software available to
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TemplateBasedVMs is installed. The default template is based on Fedora,
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but there are additional templates based on other Linux distributions. There
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are also templates available with or without certain software preinstalled. The
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concept of TemplateVMs is initially described
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[here](/getting-started/#appvms-qubes-and-templatevms). The technical
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details of this implementation are described in the developer documentation
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[here](/doc/template-implementation/).
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Some templates are available in ready-to-use binary form, but some of them are
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available only as source code, which can be built using
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[Qubes Builder](/doc/qubes-builder/). In particular, some template "flavors"
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are available in source code form only. Take a look at the [Qubes Builder
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documentation](/doc/qubes-builder/) for instructions on how to compile them.
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To reinstall a currently installed TemplateVM, see [here](/doc/reinstall-template/).
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ITL Supported templates
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These are templates which ITL is responsible for building and releasing updates
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for. ITL guarantees that the binary updates are compiled from exactly the same
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source code as we publish.
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* Fedora (default base template)
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* [Fedora - Minimal](/doc/templates/fedora-minimal)
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* [Debian](/doc/templates/debian/)
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Community Supported templates
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These templates are supported by the Qubes community. Some of them are
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available in ready-to-use binary package form (built by ITL), while others
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are available only in source code form. In all cases ITL, does not provide
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updates for these templates. However, such updates may be provided by the
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template maintainer.
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By installing these templates, you are trusting not only ITL and the
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distribution maintainers, but also the template maintainer. In addition,
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these templates may be somewhat less stable, since ITL does not test them.
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* [Whonix](/doc/templates/whonix/)
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* [Ubuntu](/doc/templates/ubuntu/)
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* [Archlinux](/doc/templates/archlinux/)
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Important Notes
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---------------
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* Whenever a TemplateBasedVM is created, the contents of the `/home`
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directory of its parent TemplateVM are copied to the child TemplateBasedVM's
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`/home`. From that point onward, the child TemplateBasedVM's `/home`
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is independent from its parent TemplateVM's `/home`, which means that any
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subsequent changes to the parent TemplateVM's `/home` will no longer affect
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the child TemplateBasedVM's `/home`.
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* Once a TemplateBasedVM has been created, any changes in its `/home`,
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`/usr/local`, or `/rw/config` directories will be persistent across reboots,
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which means that any files stored there will still be available after
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restarting the TemplateBasedVM. No changes in any other directories in
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TemplateBasedVMs persist in this manner. If you would like to make changes
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in other directories which *do* persist in this manner, you must make those
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changes in the parent TemplateVM.
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* Templates are not automatically updated when
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[updating dom0](/doc/software-update-dom0/). This is by design, since doing
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so would cause all user modifications to templates to be lost. Instead, you
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should update your templates
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[from within each template](/doc/software-update-vm/). If you *do* want to
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update a template from dom0 (and thereby lose any user modifications in the
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existing template), you must first uninstall the existing template from dom0:
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$ sudo yum remove qubes-template-fedora-23
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* On XFCE based Dom0, a manual action may be required to remove the "Start Menu"
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sub-menu of the removed TemplateVM. For example, to remove a dangling sub-menu
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for a removed "fedora-21" template, open a Dom0 Terminal and type:
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$ sudo rm ~/.local/share/applications/fedora-21-*
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Just make sure there are no other TemplateVMs whose names start with "fedora-21"
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or else their menu items will be removed too.
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