Docker apt-get update fails

Question

Can somebody help me get apt-get working in my docker container? Whenever I try running any apt-get command in my docker container, the command fails. I\'m running Docker ve

Answer 1

I was using Jenkins base image and no matter what I do, apt-get update was always failing. Eventually, this helped, removing /var/lib/apt/lists/ and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* * did the trick.

USER root
RUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
RUN rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
RUN apt-get update
....Continue using apt-get for installing your stuff..
RUN apt-get install -y maven