How to run wget inside Ubuntu Docker image?

Question

I\'m trying to download a Debian package inside a Ubuntu container as follows:

sudo docker run ubuntu:14.04 wget https://downloads-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/ubun         


        

Answer 1

I had this problem recently where apt install wget does not find anything. As it turns out apt update was never run.

apt update
apt install wget

After discussing this with a coworker we mused that apt update is likely not run in order to save both time and space in the docker image.