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Updating Whonix in Qubes
It is important to keep your Whonix templates current as to get important security updates.
Configure Whonix TemplateVM proxy settings
Open the Whonix Terminals
Launch Terminal for both whonix-gw and whonix-ws TemplateVMs and then perform the following steps to both TemplateVMs
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
The output should look similar to this.
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates Release.gpg
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates Release
Hit http://deb.torproject.org jessie Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie Release.gpg
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://deb.torproject.org jessie Release
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie Release
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free i386 Packages
Hit http://deb.torproject.org jessie/main i386 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/main i386 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/non-free i386 Packages
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://deb.torproject.org jessie/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://deb.torproject.org jessie/main Translation-en
Reading package lists... Done
However, if what you see is different or you see the word WARNING: you should look at our troubleshooting documentation for Debian and Whonix.
Restart Services after Upgrading
The easy way to do this is to simply reboot.
sudo reboot
Restart after Kernel Upgrades
When linux-image-... was upgraded, reboot is required to profit from security updates.
Shutdown Whonix TemplateVM
Qubes VM Manager -> right clock on TemplateVM -> Shutdown VM
Restart / Update Whonix VMs
If new updates were available and installed, you will need to either simply restart your running Whonix-Gateway ProxyVMs and running Whonix-Workstation AppVMs for them to be updated -- or alternatively apply this same update process again to your running VMs if not wanting to restart them right away.