Building Whonix from source errors

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#1

Hi,

I’m trying to compile Whonix from source, but I get a lot of errors. First, I get an error about something that my commits aren’t tagged. I fixed it by adding–allow-untagged true and --allow-uncommited true. Now I get an update error, not sure what is means. Ignoring the error leads to more errors which in the end leads to a failure of the build. I follow the guide step by step so I don’t understand why would this happen. I only changed the build version from 15.0.0.9.4-stable to 15.0.0.6.6-stable because according to git --no-pager tag, this is the latest stable version.

This is what I run:

sudo ./whonix_build --flavor whonix-gateway-cli --target qcow2 --repo true --allow-untagged true --allow-uncommitted true --build

(I need it for a KVM setup)

This is the first error:

last_failed_bash_command: $apt_get_update_wrapper_source_path_full ${APTGETOPT[@]} -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=“$whonix_build_sources_list_primary” -o Dir::Etc::sourceparts=“-” update

Upper in the log I get:

E: The repository ‘http://HTTPS///deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease’ is not signed.

I also skipped this step:

git checkout --recurse-submodules 15.0.0.9.4-stable

Because it says I have errors with my git submodules.

I’m following this tutorial Build and Update Whonix ™ from Source Code, which seems official.

Any help is appriciated, Thanks!

#2

Sometimes I forget to create an identical copy of that git tag and rename to 15.0.0.9.4-stable. Created that tag now.

And also created an easier git clone command so you don’t have to deal with submodules folder changes. Build and Update Whonix ™ from Source Code slightly updated.

Don’t use.

#3

Ok, thanks!

I stil get this error:
last_failed_bash_command: $apt_get_update_wrapper_source_path_full ${APTGETOPT[@]} -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist="$whonix_build_sources_list_primary" -o Dir::Etc::sourceparts="-" update
In this script:
ERROR in ././build-steps.d/1120_prepare-build-machine detected!
I think it is caused by this:
Err:2 _http://HTTPS///deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Temporary failure resolving ‘HTTPS’
Why is there double Http? I guess this is the error?

#4

UnlikelyDescription2 via Whonix Forum:

Err:2 _http://HTTPS///deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Temporary failure resolving ‘HTTPS’

Is your internet conneciton fully functional wherever you’re building
inside VM or on host?

You cannot build on Whonix-Gateway.

Why is there double Http? I guess this is the error?

Not an error. apt-cacher-ng https syntax.

#5

Yeah, internet is good. I tried it twice with the same error. Once on an Ubuntu 20.04 host, and once on a Debian 10 “buster” guest. Both times I had internet.

Gonna spend tomorrow trying to figure this out, any tips where and what to look for?

#6

Must be build on Debian buster. Anything else is untested and unsupported.

  • Can’t just continue / skip any errors without reporting.
  • Full log required.
  • There must not be a locally (inside VM) running firewall that blocks apt-cacher-ng localhost 127.0.0.1 port 3142.

test apt-cacher-ng port reachablity

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apt-cacher-ng

curl --head http://127.0.0.1:3142

Expected output:

HTTP/1.1 406 Usage Information
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
#7

Ok, it works fine!

I just misunderstood you and thought that

git clone --branch 15.0.0.9.4-stable --jobs=4 --recursive _https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix

was instead of:

git checkout --recurse-submodules 15.0.0.9.4-stable

but you need both of them apparently.

Now everything is good. Thanks!

#8

Ok but now something else is weird, it shows my .qcow2 file is 101G, my VM was limited to 10G so this is impossible…

I guess this is not an error or something, just wierd, I used qemu-img -O to shrink it to 2.2G

#9

UnlikelyDescription2 via Whonix Forum:

Ok but now something else is weird, it shows my .qcow2 file is 101G, my VM was limited to 10G so this is impossible…