Install coreutils in microsoft hosted azure devops agents

Question

Is there a way to install coreutils in Microsoft hosted azure devops ubuntu-16.04 or 18.04 agents.

Basically we need to run md5sum command as part of our build process.

Apt-Get Install -y coreutils gives the following error: apt-get: command not found

Answer 1

Since you are on hosted agent, unlike you used to do on Linux. Please give a try with below command

 sudo apt-get -y install coreutils 

Password-less sudo is documented here.

Run as an administrator on Windows and a passwordless sudo user on Linux

If above way is still not working, suggest you use self-hosted agent as a workaround.