Required apps aren't automatically installed for stable versions

[GVodyanov]

Required applications for running nextcloud like viewer aren't installed when setting up stable versions like they are when setting up main.

[juliusknorr]

Can you tell a bit more how you setup the stable versions? Currently this is mostly a manual process that should be fully documented. Though I'd consider this as an enhancement to maybe have a script to automatically add new stable branches. Could save quite some manual effort during branchoff.

But let me know if i got something wrong there.

[pabzm]

I was wondering about this (or my interpretation of this) as well: E.g. stable29 gets up but without any of the apps I listed in
NEXTCLOUD_AUTOINSTALL_APPS, because for most of them it says "Could not download app $APP".

Is that expected?

Below is the output of docker compose up stable29.

The instance is working fine in other respects, and I can also install apps using occ or the admin UI, just the automatic installation during setup doesn't work.

user@Mac nextcloud-docker-dev % doco up stable29
WARN[0000] /Users/user/projects/nc/nextcloud-docker-dev/docker-compose.yml: the attribute `version` is obsolete, it will be ignored, please remove it to avoid potential confusion
[+] Running 6/6
 ✔ Network nc-master_default             Created                                                                                                                                           0.0s
 ✔ Container nc-master-proxy-1           Created                                                                                                                                           0.1s
 ✔ Container nc-master-mail-1            Created                                                                                                                                           0.1s
 ✔ Container nc-master-redis-1           Created                                                                                                                                           0.1s
 ✔ Container nc-master-database-pgsql-1  Created                                                                                                                                           0.1s
 ✔ Container nc-master-stable29-1        Created                                                                                                                                           0.2s
Attaching to stable29-1
stable29-1  | <Directory "/var/www/html">
stable29-1  | AllowOverride None
stable29-1  | RewriteEngine On
stable29-1  | RewriteBase /
stable29-1  | RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/installing.html$
stable29-1  | RewriteRule .* /installing.html [L]
stable29-1  | </Directory>
stable29-1  | Server source is mounted, continuing
stable29-1  | Nextcloud server source is ready
stable29-1  | ⌛ Waiting for other containers
stable29-1  | 📰 Watching log file
stable29-1  | ⌚ Starting cron
stable29-1  | 🚀 Starting apache
stable29-1  | ==> /var/www/html/data/nextcloud.log <==
stable29-1  |
stable29-1  | ==> /var/log/cron/nextcloud.log <==
stable29-1  |
stable29-1  | ==> /var/log/xdebug.log <==
stable29-1  | [Fri Apr 11 15:55:02.478818 2025] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1:tid 1] AH00163: Apache/2.4.62 (Debian) PHP/8.1.31 configured -- resuming normal operations
stable29-1  | [Fri Apr 11 15:55:02.478838 2025] [core:notice] [pid 1:tid 1] AH00094: Command line: 'apache2 -D FOREGROUND'
stable29-1  | ✅ Database server ready
stable29-1  | Nextcloud is not installed - only a limited number of commands are available
stable29-1  | Add the host IP as host.docker.internal to /etc/hosts ...
stable29-1  | database name will be stable29
stable29-1  | 🔧 Starting auto installation
stable29-1  | occ maintenance:install --admin-user=admin --admin-pass=admin --database=pgsql --database-name=stable29 --database-host=database-pgsql --database-user=postgres --database-pass=postgres
stable29-1  |    Nextcloud was successfully installed
stable29-1  | 🔧 Server installed
stable29-1  | 🔧 Provisioning apps
stable29-1  | occ app:disable password_policy
stable29-1  |    No such app enabled: password_policy
stable29-1  | occ app:enable viewer
stable29-1  |    viewer already enabled
stable29-1  | occ app:enable profiler
stable29-1  |    Could not download app profiler
stable29-1  | occ app:enable hmr_enabler
stable29-1  |    Could not download app hmr_enabler
stable29-1  | occ app:enable activity
stable29-1  |    Could not download app activity
stable29-1  | occ app:enable circles
stable29-1  |    App "Circles" cannot be installed because it is not compatible with this version of the server.
stable29-1  | occ app:enable files_pdfviewer
stable29-1  |    Client error: `GET https://github.com/nextcloud/files_pdfviewer/releases/download/v1.2.1/files_pdfviewer-1.2.1.tar.gz` resulted in a `404 Not Found` response:
stable29-1  |    Not Found
stable29-1  |
stable29-1  | occ app:enable files_rightclick
stable29-1  |    App "Right click" cannot be installed because it is not compatible with this version of the server.
stable29-1  | occ app:enable files_videoplayer
stable29-1  |    Could not download app files_videoplayer
stable29-1  | occ app:enable firstrunwizard
stable29-1  |    Could not download app firstrunwizard
stable29-1  | occ app:enable logreader
stable29-1  |    Could not download app logreader
stable29-1  | occ app:enable nextcloud_announcements
stable29-1  |    Could not download app nextcloud_announcements
stable29-1  | occ app:enable notifications
stable29-1  |    notifications already enabled
stable29-1  | occ app:enable password_policy
stable29-1  |    Could not download app password_policy
stable29-1  | occ app:enable photos
stable29-1  |    Could not download app photos
stable29-1  | occ app:enable privacy
stable29-1  |    Could not download app privacy
stable29-1  | occ app:enable recommendations
stable29-1  |    Could not download app recommendations
stable29-1  | occ app:enable serverinfo
stable29-1  |    Could not download app serverinfo
stable29-1  | occ app:enable survey_client
stable29-1  |    Could not download app survey_client
stable29-1  | occ app:enable support
stable29-1  |    Could not download app support
stable29-1  | occ app:enable text
stable29-1  |    Could not download app text
…

[bdovaz]

@juliusknorr the same thing happens to me.

Is there no way to use a parameter or script that can be left somewhere to automatically bootstrap and install the apps we depend on?

With NEXTCLOUD_AUTOINSTALL_APPS=user_oidc:

🔧 Provisioning apps

occ app:enable user_oidc

   Could not download app user_oidc

Edit: In my case I was setting up my config.php in the container and didn't remember that I had appstoreenabled set to false: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/apps_management.html#using-a-self-hosted-apps-store