Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.I tried to run the built-in quickstart and was missing php extensions
[ERROR] You must have the pdo_sqlite PHP extension installed. See core/INSTALL.sqlite.txt for instructions.
I ran the following command: php ./core/scripts/drupal quick-start standard
Then I got the error
What was your environment like?
Please answer as many of the following questions as you can.
Was this a local development environment, or a remote server?:
Local ubuntu 20.04 instance
Are you using Lando, DDEV, or another Docker-based environment?:
Just used the quickstart command
What operating system were you using?
Ubunto 20.04
What web server are you using?
n/a
What PHP version are you using (see https://www.drupal.org/i/3275810#confirm-php-version)?
7.4, but I tested on 8.1 too
What version of Composer are you using (see https://www.drupal.org/i/3275810#confirm-composer-version)?
2.3.3
Did you accomplish your goal? Were the instructions clear? Did you observe any bugs or errors, or other issues? Did you need to do any workarounds?
Installed php extension
Problem with these instructions? Anything else we should know?
consider adding php extensions
Comments
Comment #2
Theresa.GrannumThank you for testing @nerdstein! We've noted your feedback on adding additional instructions for PHP extensions. Can you confirm if you were able to successfully update Drupal core?
Comment #3
Theresa.GrannumComment #4
phenaproximaI don't think this is something we can fix -- the quick-start is part of Drupal core, not Automatic Updates. Automatic Updates itself has no opinion about what PHP extensions are installed.
Although it wouldn't hurt to update the beta testing instructions, but that can wait. I think I can close this issue out. Thanks for testing, @nerdstein!