Azure Pipelines - Linux builds failing

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I’m getting build failures with the following error:

E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libx11/libx11-xcb-dev_1.6.3-1ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb  404  Not Found

Searches aren’t leading me anywhere. Any else have this problem? Any ideas?

Edit: Sorry, meant to post this in Development.

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I don’t know why it started happening but this fixed it for me:

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Thanks! That worked for me too. Now I can release this beta…

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I can’t speak to this specific problem, but in my day job I do a lot of development in Docker containers, and it’s pretty common in container base images to delete the database files for apt in /var/lib. The update command restores them.

Seems like the base image was updated and in fact had /var/lib cleaned. It’s good to do an explicit apt update when building in containers. It’s also good to include

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

to all your scripts that call apt or apt-get. Otherwise your builds can fail if a package requires configuration at install time.

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