Azure Infrastructure Announcements – October 2023
October is the month of ghosts and monsters – Halloween (Samhain as we Celts originally called it). Read on to find out what ghouls and creatures crawled from under the…
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E: Could Not Open File /var/lib/apt/lists
In this post, I’ll show how I solved a failure, that occurred during an Azure Image Builder (Packer) build with a Ubuntu 20.04 image, which resulted in a bunch of errors that contained E: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/ with a bunch of different file names.
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