os/sles — OS Install Verification (registry.suse.com/suse/sle15:15.7)

A stock registry.suse.com/suse/sle15:15.7 container, provisioned with Ansible to install exactly the OS packages needed for the Robot Framework suites under tests/ (Browser Library / Playwright) to run headless.

Packages installed by Ansible

• libasound2
• libatk-bridge-2_0-0
• libatk-1_0-0
• libatspi0
• libcairo2
• libcups2
• libdbus-1-3
• libdrm2
• libgbm1
• libglib-2_0-0
• mozilla-nspr
• mozilla-nss
• libpango-1_0-0
• libX11-6
• libxcb1
• libXcomposite1
• libXdamage1
• libXext6
• libXfixes3
• libxkbcommon0
• libXrandr2
• libfontconfig1
• libfreetype6
• dejavu-fonts
• xorg-x11-fonts-core

Deviations / Caveats

• SLE_BCI (the free SLES base image) does not provide Xvfb or the exact Liberation/Noto-Color-Emoji/Unifont/scalable-X font packages available on Debian/Ubuntu. dejavu-fonts and xorg-x11-fonts-core are installed as broad-coverage substitutes -- without at least one real font, Chromium fatally crashes on any page with real text (SLE_BCI ships zero fonts by default), so this is not optional. Headless Chromium does not require Xvfb to launch. Pages relying specifically on color emoji or CJK/Unifont-level Unicode coverage may still render with fallback glyphs. A subscribed SLES image with the Package Hub/Desktop module could add the exact upstream packages; the free BCI image cannot.

How this works

Opening this folder as a devcontainer (or running it in CI via docker run) does two things, in order:

1. .devcontainer/oncreate.sh bootstraps Ansible and runs the shared browser-deps role to install the packages listed above.
2. .devcontainer/postcreate.sh then runs every Robot Framework suite under tests/ to verify the install actually works end-to-end — not just that packages installed, but that real headless browser tests pass.

A full run log (per-step status, exact versions, this file's content again) is written to report.md inside the container. That file is not committed to this repo — see it after opening the devcontainer yourself, or download it from the os-report-sles artifact on the upstream CI run.

About

Also try the other OS install targets, and the example suites they verify.

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