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App Platform - install package permission error

Posted on October 30, 2020

Adding apt-get update && apt-get install redis-server to the run commands gives me a permissions error. How can I add packages to my app please? (note, sudo also fails)



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I bet it’d work out if you add a Dockerfile to the root of your repo that installs the redis-server package

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