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Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). FROM ubuntu:22.04 RUN apt-get update RUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl nginx Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```text Docker sees the initial and modified instructions as identical and reuses the cache from previous steps. As a result the `apt-get update` isn't executed because the build uses the cached version. Because the `apt-get update` isn't run, your build can potentially get an outdated version of the `curl` and `nginx` packages. Using `RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends` ensures your Dockerfile installs the latest package versions with no further coding or manual intervention. This technique is known as cache busting. You can also achieve cache busting by specifying a package version. This is known as version pinning. For example: ``` RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ package-bar \ package-baz \ package-foo=1.3. Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```text Version pinning forces the build to retrieve a particular version regardless of what’s in the cache. This technique can also reduce failures due to unanticipated changes in required packages. Below is a well-formed `RUN` instruction that demonstrates all the `apt-get` recommendations. ``` RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ aufs-tools \ automake \ build-essential \ curl \ dpkg-sig \ libcap-dev \ libsqlite3-dev \ mercurial \ reprepro \ ruby1.9.1 \ ruby1.9.1-dev \ s3cmd=1.1. \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/ Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): … Attribution: Adapted from Docker Documentation under Apache-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.