Ubuntu Minimal causes cPanel issues due to trimmed data

Symptoms

/scripts/check_cpanel_pkgs will repeatedly report missing and altered packages:

[22:34:27 ns2 root@95757177 ~]cPs# /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/check_cpanel_pkgs --fix
[2025-07-29 22:35:10 +0000]   
[2025-07-29 22:35:10 +0000]   Problems were detected with cPanel-provided files which are controlled by packages.
[2025-07-29 22:35:10 +0000]   If you did not make these changes intentionally, you can correct them by running:
[2025-07-29 22:35:10 +0000]   
[2025-07-29 22:35:10 +0000]   > /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/check_cpanel_pkgs --fix
[2025-07-29 22:35:10 +0000]   The following packages are missing from your system:
[2025-07-29 22:35:10 +0000]   cpanel-p0f-3.09b-1.cp108~u20
[2025-07-29 22:35:40 +0000]    
[2025-07-29 22:35:40 +0000]   The following files were found to be altered from their original package form:
[2025-07-29 22:35:40 +0000]   cpanel-dovecot
[2025-07-29 22:35:40 +0000]   cpanel-pdns
[2025-07-29 22:35:40 +0000]   cpanel-php83-date-holidays
[2025-07-29 22:35:40 +0000]   cpanel-pigz
[2025-07-29 22:35:40 +0000]   cpanel-unbound

Description

This issue relates to how Ubuntu Minimal cuts data from the server to save space.

We've opened an internal case for our development team to investigate this further. For reference, the case number is CPANEL-46893. Follow this article to receive an email notification when a solution is published in the product. 

Workaround

Ubuntu provides a command to unminimize the OS:

 /usr/locall/sbin/unminimize