Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5980 02 Dec 2025, 13:12

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Additional software 79 0 0 0 0 79 5 0 5 16:40.763 Passed
Feature Additional software
As a Tails user I may want to install software not shipped in Tails And have them installed automatically when I enable persistence in the Greeter
4:19.669
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Before features/support/hooks.rb:519 0.004
Given I start Tails from a freshly installed USB drive with an administration password and the network is plugged and I login 1:1.765
And I update APT using apt 7.269
And I install "popularity-contest" using apt 6.289
Then I am proposed to add the "popularity-contest" package to my Additional Software 4.450
When I create a persistent storage and activate the Additional Software feature 42.852
Then Additional Software is correctly configured for package "popularity-contest" 3.195
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.061
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged 56.885
And I enable persistence 41.644
And I log in to a new session 13.572
And the Additional Software installation service has started 10.455
Then I am notified that the installation succeeded 2.109
And Additional Software is correctly configured for package "popularity-contest" 0.850
And the package "popularity-contest" is installed after Additional Software has been started 0.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:527 15.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
1:42.997
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Before features/support/hooks.rb:519 0.009
Given a computer 0.174
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" and I login with an administration password 1:27.094
And I update APT using apt 6.479
When I install "ripgrep" using apt 6.963
Then the Additional Software dpkg hook has been run for package "ripgrep" and notices the persistence is locked 2.221
And the package "ripgrep" is installed 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:527 15.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
3:34.819
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Before features/support/hooks.rb:519 0.006
Given a computer 0.201
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" and I login with persistence enabled and an administration password 2:0.536
When I uninstall "popularity-contest" using apt 6.305
And I accept removing "popularity-contest" from Additional Software 2.627
Then "popularity-contest" is not in the list of Additional Software 2.465
When I start Synaptic 15.101
And I update APT using Synaptic 22.221
And I install "cowsay" using Synaptic 12.894
And I accept adding "cowsay" to Additional Software 2.665
Then Additional Software is correctly configured for package "cowsay" 0.870
When I uninstall "cowsay" using apt 3.429
And I refuse removing "cowsay" from Additional Software 3.078
Then Additional Software is correctly configured for package "cowsay" 0.795
When I start "Additional Software" via GNOME Activities Overview 10.506
And I remove "cowsay" from the list of Additional Software using Additional Software GUI 4.027
Then "cowsay" is not in the list of Additional Software 1.462
When I install "cowsay" using apt 3.203
And I refuse adding "cowsay" to Additional Software 1.713
Then "cowsay" is not in the list of Additional Software 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:527 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
5:43.181
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Before features/support/hooks.rb:519 0.004
Given a computer 0.173
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" and I login with persistence enabled and an administration password 1:36.084
And I configure APT to prefer an old version of cowsay 0.051
When I install an old version "3.03+dfsg2-1" of the cowsay package using apt 9.221
And I accept adding "cowsay" to Additional Software 5.643
And Additional Software is correctly configured for package "cowsay" 1.212
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.451
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged 46.012
And I enable persistence 11.124
# We need to add back this custom APT source for the Additional Software
# install step, as it was not saved in persistence
And I configure APT to prefer an old version of cowsay 0.024
# Prevent the "Warning: virtual machine detected!" notification from racing
# with the one we'll be interacting with below.
And I disable the tails-virt-notify-user.service user unit 0.081
And I log in to a new session 12.426
And the installed version of package "cowsay" is "3.03+dfsg2-1" after Additional Software has been started 10.435
And I revert the APT tweaks that made it prefer an old version of cowsay 0.110
# We remove the newest package after it has been downloaded and before
# it is installed, so that the upgrade process fails
And I prepare the Additional Software upgrade process to fail 0.078
And the network is plugged 0.051
And Tor is ready 13.730
And available upgrades have been checked 0.093
And I see the "The upgrade of your additional software failed" notification after at most 300 seconds 4.398
And I can open the Additional Software configuration window from the notification 2.916
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.500
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged 45.465
And I enable persistence 9.611
# We need to add back this custom APT source for the Additional Software
# install step, as it was not saved in persistence
And I configure APT to prefer an old version of cowsay 0.022
And I log in to a new session 12.382
And the installed version of package "cowsay" is "3.03+dfsg2-1" after Additional Software has been started 10.970
And I revert the APT tweaks that made it prefer an old version of cowsay 0.054
And the network is plugged 0.078
And Tor is ready 24.512
Then the Additional Software upgrade service has started 0.198
And the installed version of package "cowsay" is newer than "3.03+dfsg2-1" 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:527 1.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
1:20.096
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Before features/support/hooks.rb:519 0.005
Given a computer 0.233
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged 44.335
And I enable persistence 9.571
And I remove the "cowsay" deb files from the APT cache 0.050
# Prevent the "Warning: virtual machine detected!" notification from racing
# with the one we'll be interacting with below.
And I disable the tails-virt-notify-user.service user unit 0.067
And I log in to a new session 13.578
Then I see the "The installation of your additional software failed" notification after at most 300 seconds 7.721
And I can open the Additional Software log file from the notification 3.945
And the package "cowsay" is not installed 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:527 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011