$ dpkg -l | grep libguestfs
ii libguestfs-perl 1:1.40.2-1ubuntu1.1 amd64 guest disk image management system - Perl bindings
ii libguestfs-tools 1:1.40.2-1ubuntu1.1 amd64 guest disk image management system - tools
ii libguestfs0:amd64 1:1.40.2-1ubuntu1.1 amd64 guest disk image management system - shared library
Verification on Disco.
Following the test case in the description :
$ sudo guestfish -a xenial- server- cloudimg- amd64-disk1. img --network -v << EOF archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu xenial InRelease archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB] security. ubuntu. com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [109 kB] archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease security. ubuntu. com/ubuntu xenial- security/ main amd64 Packages [667 kB] security. ubuntu. com/ubuntu xenial- security/ main Translation-en [269 kB] security. ubuntu. com/ubuntu xenial- security/ universe amd64 Packages [438 kB] security. ubuntu. com/ubuntu xenial- security/ universe Translation-en [178 kB] archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [966 kB] archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main Translation-en [384 kB] archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu xenial- updates/ universe amd64 Packages [750 kB] archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu xenial- updates/ universe Translation-en [312 kB]
> run
> mount /dev/sda1 /
> command 'apt update'
> EOF
libguestfs: launch: program=guestfish
libguestfs: launch: version=1.40.2
libguestfs: launch: backend registered: unix
...
Hit:1 http://
Get:2 http://
Get:3 http://
Hit:4 http://
Get:5 http://
Get:6 http://
Get:7 http://
Get:8 http://
Get:9 http://
Get:10 http://
Get:11 http://
Get:12 http://
Fetched 4182 kB in 11s (354 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
56 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
...
Now 'apt update' works.
$ dpkg -l | grep libguestfs
ii libguestfs-perl 1:1.40.2-1ubuntu1.1 amd64 guest disk image management system - Perl bindings
ii libguestfs-tools 1:1.40.2-1ubuntu1.1 amd64 guest disk image management system - tools
ii libguestfs0:amd64 1:1.40.2-1ubuntu1.1 amd64 guest disk image management system - shared library