Running Maven inside a Cloud9 Docker container

Question

I am figuring out how to run Maven inside a Cloud9 workspace's console inside a Docker container running on Docker VM on a Mac.

The problem is that the apt-get command is not able to resolve any of the packages that it normally would, as the Docker VM contains a minimal Linux distribution:

# apt-get install maven                                                                                              
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package maven

It is a public image from Docker Hub. The only solution to this seems to be creating a custom container (running docker commit, doing some changes to Dockerfile...), but both seem quite combersome to repeat this docker commit every time a minor dependency needs to be updated...

What would be the best way to run the mvn command inside a Docker container?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 30 '16 at 14:35

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You need the following:

# apt-get update          
# apt-get install maven

apt-get update is used to get the package cache.

answered Aug 30 '16 at 14:35

nitishagar

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It works, but after restarting the container the updates get lost. – Peter G. Aug 30 '16 at 15:55
@PeterGerhat Can you commit the container after running the maven install and start the new container. – nitishagar Aug 30 '16 at 15:58
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@PeterGerhat Can you accept the answer - if it satisfied your requirement. – nitishagar Aug 30 '16 at 16:42

Running Maven inside a Cloud9 Docker container

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