Use latest version of SQLite for Python in ubuntu-latest

Question

I have created a GitHub Actions workflow. which is supposed to run a SQL query. It uses the arrow operators for JSON. This requires SQLite >= 3.38.0.

This worked for system with windows-latest and macos-latest, for which I could say SQLite installed in Python 3.11 was >= 3.38.

But there's a problem I faced in ubuntu-latest which has 3.37. I wanted to make sure Python uses the latest version.

I did try installing through sudo apt -y install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev but it didn't replace the sqlite3 version in Python and I got this message:

libsqlite3-dev is already the newest version (3.37.2-2ubuntu0.3).
sqlite3 is already the newest version (3.37.2-2ubuntu0.3).

reference github workflow:

name: 'tests'

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - 'testing'

jobs:
    test:
      name: Test
      runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}


      strategy:
        matrix:
          os: ['macos-latest', 'windows-latest', 'ubuntu-latest']

      steps:
        - uses: actions/checkout@v3

        - name: Install Latest sqlite3 version on non-windows platform
          if: ${{ matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' }}
          run: |
            bash ./.github/scripts/install-sqlite.sh

        - name: Set up Python 3.11
          uses: actions/setup-python@v3
          with:
            python-version: "3.11"

        - name: Install dependencies
          run: |
            python -m pip install --upgrade pip
            pip install poetry 
            poetry install

        - name: Smoke Test
          run: pytest __test__/test_smoke

I have even installed it from the source code, the version changed when I tried sqlite --version but it didn't change in Python.

How can I upgrade the sqlite3 version in Python from 3.37 to 3.38 in ubuntu-latest?

Answer 1

This issue is resolved by uninstalling existing SQLite after building it from the source.

• build the source code of sqlite
• uninstall the existing version through apt-get remove -y --auto-remove sqlite3

you would find this in the bash script

# required to support: https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html#jptr
# installing build: 3.45.0
wget https://www.sqlite.org/2024/sqlite-autoconf-3450000.tar.gz
# unzipping build
tar -xvzf sqlite-autoconf-3450000.tar.gz

# below steps are for installing the build in /usr/local/bin
cd sqlite-autoconf-3450000 || exit
./configure
make
sudo make install

# remove the previous version
sudo apt-get remove -y --auto-remove sqlite3

Test Workflow:

name: 'server-build'

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - 'server-build'

jobs:
    build:
      name: Building Executable
      needs: pre
      if: ${{ needs.pre.outputs.exists == 'false' }}
      runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
      strategy:
        matrix:
          os: ['macos-latest', 'windows-latest', 'ubuntu-latest']

      steps:
        - uses: actions/checkout@v4

        - name: If in ubuntu, Install sqlite3 3.45.0
          if: ${{ matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' }}
          run: |
            bash ./build.sh 

        - name: Set up Python 3.11
          uses: actions/setup-python@v5
          with:
            python-version: "3.11"

        - name: check
          run: |
            python -c "import sqlite3; print(sqlite3.sqlite_version_info);"