diff --git a/buildserver/cookbooks/fdroidbuild-general/recipes/default.rb b/buildserver/cookbooks/fdroidbuild-general/recipes/default.rb
index c5701474..dcd4dc9c 100644
--- a/buildserver/cookbooks/fdroidbuild-general/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/buildserver/cookbooks/fdroidbuild-general/recipes/default.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 
 user = node[:settings][:user]
 
+execute "apt-get-update" do
+  command "apt-get update"
+  action :nothing
+end
+
 %w{ant ant-contrib autoconf autopoint bison cmake expect libtool libsaxonb-java libssl1.0.0 libssl-dev maven openjdk-7-jdk javacc python python-magic git-core mercurial subversion bzr git-svn make perlmagick pkg-config zip ruby rubygems librmagick-ruby yasm imagemagick gettext realpath}.each do |pkg|
   package pkg do
     action :install