Build Error. Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages

Question

Build Errors unable to find jq.

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages 404 Not Found Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages 404 Not Found Fetched 723 kB in 2s (357 kB/s) W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
$ apt-get install jq
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Unable to locate package jq
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

Answer 1

@codinghaus mentioned in another thread:

This is due to the fact that as Wheezy and Jessie have been integrated into the archive.debian.org structure recently, we are now removing all of Wheezy and all non-LTS architectures of Jessie from the mirror network starting today.

A solution (according to https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/issues/66#issuecomment-476616579) is to add the following command into your Dockerfile before calling any apt-get update when using debian:jessie.

RUN sed -i '/jessie-updates/d' /etc/apt/sources.list  # Now archived

This will remove the jessie-updates repository (which now causes the 404) from sources.list.

FROM debian:jessie
RUN sed -i '/jessie-updates/d' /etc/apt/sources.list  # Now archived
RUN apt-get update
CMD /bin/sh

Answer 2

Just place this line before your apt-get commands in your Dockerfile:

RUN echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian jessie main" > /etc/apt/sources.list

Debian removed some url for old packages which is causing this issue. The line fixes the repository to refer to.