By Kaii
I have deployed a Laravel application on App Platforms and now I need to install new packages, but when I try to use the command “sudo apt update” I get this message “bash: sudo: command not found” and if I use only “apt update” I get the message “Acquire (13: Permission denied)”. How can I fix this, do I need to attach a Droplet to my application?
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👋 @Kaii
If you’re using buildpacks with App Platform, apt commands are not supported, though we plan to offer a method to do this in the future.
A workaround is to build and deploy using a Dockerfile.
Hi there,
Quick update here, the App Platform now supports this via Aptfile:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/reference/buildpacks/aptfile/
App Platform looks for a file named Aptfile (no file extension) to detect an application requiring system packages. If this file is detected, the heroku-buildpack-apt buildpack is used to install any packages listed in the Aptfile during the build process.
The following example Aptfile declares three system packages to install:
libpq-dev
imagemagick
curl
This example installs:
libpq-dev: A library for PostgreSQL applications.imagemagick: A command-line tool for image processing.curl: A command line tool for making HTTP requests.
Another option here remains the usage of a Dockerfile which gives you more flexibility:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/reference/dockerfile/
Hope that this helps!
Best,
Bobby
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