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+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\system\Tests\Installer;
+
+use Drupal\Component\Serialization\Yaml;
+use Drupal\Core\Archiver\ArchiveTar;
+use Drupal\simpletest\InstallerTestBase;
+
+/**
+ * Verifies that installing from existing configuration works.
+ *
+ * @group Installer
+ */
+class InstallerExistingConfigMultilingualConfigDirTest extends InstallerExistingConfigTestBase {
+
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  protected $profile = 'testing_config_install_multilingual';
+
+    /**
+     * {@inheritdoc}
+     */
+    protected function setUp() {
+        $archiver = new ArchiveTar($this->getConfigTarball(), 'gz');
+
+        // Create a profile for testing.
+        $info = [
+          'type' => 'profile',
+          'core' => \Drupal::CORE_COMPATIBILITY,
+          'name' => 'Configuration installation test profile (' . $this->profile . ')',
+          'config_install' => TRUE,
+        ];
+        // File API functions are not available yet.
+        $path = $this->siteDirectory . '/profiles/' . $this->profile;
+        mkdir($path, 0777, TRUE);
+        file_put_contents("$path/{$this->profile}.info.yml", Yaml::encode($info));
+
+        // Create config/sync directory and extract tarball contents to it.
+        $config_sync_directory = $this->siteDirectory . '/config/sync';
+        mkdir($config_sync_directory, 0777, TRUE);
+        $files = [];
+        $list = $archiver->listContent();
+        if (is_array($list)) {
+            /** @var array $list */
+            foreach ($list as $file) {
+                $files[] = $file['filename'];
+            }
+            $archiver->extractList($files, $config_sync_directory);
+        }
+
+        $this->settings['config_directories'] = [
+          CONFIG_SYNC_DIRECTORY => (object) [
+            'value' => $config_sync_directory,
+            'required' => TRUE,
+          ],
+        ];
+
+        InstallerTestBase::setUp();
+    }
+
+  /**
+   * @inheritDoc
+   */
+  protected function getConfigTarball() {
+    return __DIR__ . '/../../../tests/fixtures/config_install/multilingual.tar.gz';
+  }
+
+}