Allow installing packages with apt-get #519
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I'm running into a lot of trouble because of this as well. There is no reason to disallow package installation in a container. This seems to be the official answer to this: However, with the newer build image being so out of date (16.04 was released 5 years ago!), it's getting really difficult to just grab a binary from somewhere on the internet and run it (the glibc version will be too old). I want to do a really simple thing: iterate all my images and create a webp version. But |
@sztomi Do you have a link to that thread? Also, even if the image wasn't so old, there are still many reasons to install packages with APT.
Last but not least, I believe Netlify is the only CI service that for some reason disallows installing packages. I like the hosting part, but when I started using it, it never came to my mind to check whether installing packages is possible. |
@dmbaturin It's in this thread: https://answers.netlify.com/t/apt-get-install-build-dependency/3095 And I completely agree with your points. This is a baffling limitation. |
Agreed. This is a huge limitation. Using a custom Docker image would also work, but |
I'm feeling that too - a project I work on needs |
What's the reason not to allow users to install packages from the standard APT repos?
#411 adds homebrew, but it means everything will be rebuilt from source every time, even tools that are available as binary packages from the repos.
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