qusal/salt/fetcher

fetcher

Fetch publicly accessible files over the internet in Qubes OS.

Table of Contents

• Description
• Installation
• Usage

Description

A Template for DispVMs will be created and named "dvm-fetcher", from this qube you will create others that can connect to the internet to download files. You will be able to download from many protocol as long as the installed tools accepts them.

Supported protocols: DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS, WSS, RSYNC, BitTorrent.

Installation

• Top:

sudo qubesctl top.enable fetcher
sudo qubesctl --targets=tpl-fetcher,dvm-fetcher state.apply
sudo qubesctl top.disable fetcher

• State:

sudo qubesctl state.apply fetcher.create
sudo qubesctl --skip-dom0 --targets=tpl-fetcher state.apply fetcher.install
sudo qubesctl --skip-dom0 --targets=dvm-fetcher state.apply fetcher.configure-dvm

Usage

You will create disposable qubes based on the Template for DispVMs dvm-fetcher to download files over the internet using popular command-line tools such as git, curl, wget, rsync, transmission-cli as well as a graphical interface for torrenting transmission-qt.

You can use disposables based from dvm-fetcher to clone repositories, download PGP signatures, Operating System ISOs etc.