`occ app:enable app` should not install app
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enhancement
feature: apps management
feature: occ
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Description
⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️
- This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
- This issue is not already reported on Github OR Nextcloud Community Forum (I've searched it).
- Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
- I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.
Bug description
occ app:enable should not install an app that is not already installed, and should instead throw an error message.
Steps to reproduce
- check that
thisAppis not already installed occ app:install thisApp- see that
thisAppis now installed
Expected behavior
If thisApp is not already installed, then occ app:enable thisApp should not install it but instead report an error.
Installation method
Community Docker image
Nextcloud Server version
25
Operating system
Debian/Ubuntu
PHP engine version
PHP 8.2
Web server
Apache (supported)
Database engine version
MySQL
Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?
None
Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?
None
What user-backends are you using?
- Default user-backend (database)
- LDAP/ Active Directory
- SSO - SAML
- Other
Configuration report
{
"system": {
"htaccess.RewriteBase": "\/",
"memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
"apps_paths": [
{
"path": "\/var\/www\/html\/apps",
"url": "\/apps",
"writable": false
},
{
"path": "\/var\/www\/html\/custom_apps",
"url": "\/custom_apps",
"writable": true
}
],
"memcache.distributed": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
"memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
"redis": {
"host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"password": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"port": 6379
},
"passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"trusted_domains": [
"localhost",
"jhaas.cloud.4next.ch"
],
"datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbtype": "mysql",
"version": "25.0.7.1",
"overwrite.cli.url": "https:\/\/jhaas.cloud.4next.ch",
"dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbport": "",
"dbtableprefix": "oc_",
"mysql.utf8mb4": true,
"dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"installed": true,
"instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"default_language": "fr",
"default_locale": "fr_CH",
"mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
"mail_smtpauthtype": "LOGIN",
"mail_smtpsecure": "tls",
"mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_smtpport": "587",
"mail_smtpname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_smtppassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"mail_smtpauth": 1,
"trusted_proxies": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
"overwriteprotocol": "https",
"loglevel": 2,
"maintenance": false,
"default_phone_region": "CH",
"skeletondirectory": "\/var\/www\/html\/data\/nouvelUtilisateur\/",
"oidc_login_provider_url": "https:\/\/auth.4next.ch\/auth\/realms\/jhaas",
"oidc_login_client_id": "nextcloud",
"oidc_login_client_secret": "40a7dfa3-4f20-48a4-a707-e82a00c3e8de",
"oidc_login_logout_url": "https:\/\/auth.4next.ch\/auth\/realms\/jhaas\/protocol\/openid-connect\/logout?redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fjhaas.cloud.4next.ch%2F",
"oidc_login_disable_registration": false,
"allow_user_to_change_display_name": false,
"lost_password_link": "disabled",
"oidc_login_hide_password_form": true,
"oidc_create_groups": true,
"oidc_login_auto_redirect": true,
"oidc_login_redir_fallback": true,
"oidc_login_attributes": {
"id": "preferred_username",
"mail": "email",
"groups": "roles"
},
"theme": ""
}
}
List of activated Apps
Enabled:
- activity: 2.17.0
- approval: 1.1.0
- calendar: 4.4.3
- circles: 25.0.0
- cloud_federation_api: 1.8.0
- collectives: 2.6.1
- comments: 1.15.0
- contacts: 5.3.2
- dashboard: 7.5.0
- dav: 1.24.0
- deck: 1.8.5
- federatedfilesharing: 1.15.0
- federation: 1.15.0
- files: 1.20.1
- files_downloadactivity: 1.16.0
- files_pdfviewer: 2.6.0
- files_rightclick: 1.4.0
- files_sharing: 1.17.0
- files_trashbin: 1.15.0
- files_versions: 1.18.0
- firstrunwizard: 2.14.0
- forms: 3.3.1
- groupfolders: 13.1.4
- logreader: 2.10.0
- lookup_server_connector: 1.13.0
- nextcloud_announcements: 1.14.0
- notifications: 2.13.1
- oauth2: 1.13.0
- oidc_login: 2.6.0
- onlyoffice: 7.8.0
- password_policy: 1.15.0
- photos: 2.0.1
- polls: 5.2.0
- privacy: 1.9.0
- provisioning_api: 1.15.0
- quicknotes: 0.8.5
- related_resources: 1.0.4
- serverinfo: 1.15.0
- settings: 1.7.0
- sharebymail: 1.15.0
- snappymail: 2.28.4
- spreed: 15.0.7
- support: 1.8.0
- survey_client: 1.13.0
- systemtags: 1.15.0
- tasks: 0.15.0
- text: 3.6.0
- theming: 2.0.1
- twofactor_backupcodes: 1.14.0
- updatenotification: 1.15.0
- user_status: 1.5.0
- viewer: 1.9.0
- weather_status: 1.5.0
- welcome: 1.0.8
- workflowengine: 2.7.0
Disabled:
- admin_audit
- bruteforcesettings
- contactsinteraction: 1.2.0
- encryption
- files_external: 1.12.0
- rainloop: 7.2.6
- recommendations: 0.8.0
- suspicious_login
- twofactor_totp
- user_ldap
Nextcloud Signing status
No errors have been found.
Nextcloud Logs
No response
Additional info
No response
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the occ app:enable command entry point and run it with an app that is installed and one that is absent. Compare the resulting behavior with occ app:install; done means enabling never installs a missing app and reports an error instead.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100