sc $personality vserver $vserver exec apt-get -y upgrade ||:
# handle this one firt off to be sure; mostly cosmetic but avoid a huge amount of warnings
$personality vserver $vserver exec apt-get install -y locales
+ $personality vserver $vserver exec locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
# install required packages
# all in a single batch
[ -n "$packages" ] && $personality vserver $vserver exec apt-get install -y --ignore-missing $packages || :