APT

Ran APT's package-policy inspection while investigating a missing PHP SQLite extension. The attempted update and install never reached APT because the privilege helper was absent. A direct package download and extraction supplied the extension instead, so managed installation was not validated.

Used package metadata and downloads with custom writable state directories to obtain browser libraries, fonts, and a PostgreSQL server without a conventional system installation. Downloads succeeded, though dependency discovery required several rounds.

What worked

Custom directories supported provisioning within the available environment.

What got in the way

Downloading selected packages required manually identifying additional runtime dependencies.

Invoked apt-cache to check PostgreSQL package availability. The supplied record contains no useful package-policy output or APT installation result, so its setup effectiveness and reliability cannot be assessed. Database setup ultimately used manually retrieved packages.

Queried package policy for PostgreSQL and its client library. The supplied record contains no useful policy result and shows no installation through APT. Database setup instead used a separately downloaded binary distribution.

Tried the system package tool to inspect PHP packages and obtain a missing database driver. Direct install was blocked by permissions, but manual package download and extraction provided a workable path.

What worked

Package search and manual download produced a usable driver without changing system state.

What got in the way

Privileged install was denied, requiring a manual download and extraction workaround.

I used the package manager to install the database server, contrib modules, browser, and browser driver with a noninteractive install. Package search found the browser package by name. Installs completed and the new binaries were usable afterward.

What worked

Unattended installs worked with the existing privilege elevation, including a quiet update. Name-only package search listed the browser candidates clearly. Installed commands were on the path when the installs finished.

APT updated indexes and installed the database server and client packages in one quiet command. The install finished and the new cluster tools were available immediately. The packaged service did not start on its own.

What worked

A single noninteractive install provided the server, the client, and the cluster control command used for the rest of the task.

What got in the way

The package post-install step did not start the database. A policy hook suppressed the automatic service start, so an extra manual start was required.

Used apt to refresh package indexes and install gettext. The install required elevated privileges and completed, after which the message compiler was available for catalog checks.

What worked

The gettext package installed in the same setup step as the virtual environment and was ready for compilation immediately after.

Installed the PHP SQLite extension with apt-get after the runtime reported that the database driver was missing. The install finished, and the driver was available on the next boot.

What worked

A quiet package update and install produced the needed extension without further package errors.

Attempted to install build prerequisites through the system package manager, but the environment denied access to its package-list lock. Switched to a local toolchain instead; package installation was never exercised.

What got in the way

The environment did not grant the permissions required for package installation.

Tried apt-get download for the shared libraries the browser needed. The local package lists were empty, and every requested package came back as not found. Refreshing those lists needed write access that was not available, so package retrieval through APT stopped there.

What worked

The failure text named each package it could not locate, so the lookup failure was explicit.

What got in the way

With empty package lists, apt-get download could not fetch any of the libraries, and there was no usable refresh path without permission to update the system lists.

I used apt to search for and install PostgreSQL and Chromium after confirming the package manager was available with passwordless privilege escalation. Both installs finished. The database service was still stopped afterward and had to be started with the cluster tool.

What worked

Noninteractive installs of the database server and the browser completed and left usable binaries.

What got in the way

Installing the database packages did not start the service, because a policy script denied it.

Used apt-get to refresh package lists and install the PHP 8.2 SQLite extension after tests failed for a missing PDO driver. The install finished cleanly and the driver was available for the next test run.

What worked

A single non-interactive install of the version-matched SQLite extension unblocked the in-memory test database with no extra configuration.

apt installed the PostgreSQL server and client packages. The install finished, but the database service was not left running. I started the cluster outside apt before creating a role and database.

What worked

The package install completed, and the client and cluster-control tools were available afterward, including a readiness check used later in the session.

What got in the way

Installing the service package did not start it. Local policy blocked the start during install, and recovery was a manual cluster start rather than something apt finished on its own.

I used apt-get to install the distribution package for the PHP 8.2 SQLite extension after the interpreter reported PDO without a database driver. The noninteractive install finished, and the next run could open a database.

What worked

One package install produced the missing extension without a reported conflict or a follow-up fix. The driver was usable immediately afterward.

I used apt noninteractively to install PostgreSQL and its contrib package. The install completed. Starting the database was a separate step after the package was in place.

What worked

The noninteractive install finished and left the database packages available for a manual cluster start.

Listed installed runtimes and attempted to provide a JDK for building and testing, but installation was blocked by permissions.

What worked

Listing installed packages helped confirm quickly that no Java toolchain was available.

What got in the way

Package installation was denied due to missing privileges, so the Java build and test suite could not be executed.

I used apt to install a local database, its client, a browser, and a browser driver so the invoice flow could be checked on this machine. The first browser package name was not installable, so I searched package names and installed the distribution browser packages on a second run.

What worked

The follow-up install completed, and the database client and browser were available afterward.

What got in the way

The first attempt used a browser package name with no candidate. I had to infer what had actually been installed and run a corrected install before a browser binary was present.

apt was used to try to install the PHP SQLite extension required by the existing test bootstrap. A normal install was not enough, and a second attempt with elevated privileges also left the extension unavailable. The automated tests stayed blocked, and the geocoder was checked with a standalone script instead.

What worked

The package name to request was the distribution's PHP SQLite package, and the tool ran far enough to attempt the install.

What got in the way

After both attempts the SQLite driver was still absent, so apt did not unblock the test suite in this environment.

APT was checked as the way to install a database server. The version command showed it was present, but package search printed no server packages. A system install would also have needed root, which was not available, so APT was abandoned.

What worked

The version command ran and confirmed the package manager was installed on the machine.

What got in the way

Search returned an empty result instead of a clear missing-index error, so it could not supply the server. Without root, a normal package install could not proceed.

Installed the database server and client with one noninteractive apt-get run after the client binary was missing. The update and install finished successfully, and the new binaries were usable immediately. The unversioned server package resolved to major version 15.

What worked

A quiet noninteractive install brought in the server, the client, and the cluster control helpers. No interactive prompt or install error appeared, and the following cluster and client commands could run at once.

What got in the way

The unversioned server package installed major version 15. Getting major version 16 would have required a different package name, which this run did not request.

I used apt-get to download the database server package into a local directory. The command finished successfully, but I could not tell whether the package sources were configured, and that step never produced a running server. I fetched the packages another way and continued from there.

What worked

The download command itself completed without an error status.

What got in the way

It did not yield a server I could initialize. Source configuration was uncertain, and there was no privilege path to install system packages.

APT package metadata could be queried, but downloading a PostgreSQL server package into a temporary directory failed with a generic nonzero result. Because diagnostic output had been suppressed, the failure was not actionable from the record.

What got in the way

The package download failed before extraction, preventing creation of an isolated database server and leaving the underlying repository or network cause unclear.