Failing to start application on verdin

Not that I know much, but . . .

  1. Are you running on Windows 10?
    https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Virtualization-Documentation/issues/530

  2. Are you actually trying to install software in a container that is running on Verdin?

I’m asking because what you have pasted in your message looks like something that belongs in a Dockerfile used to build a container that then gets pushed to a machine. Not that I’ve been at this long, but I’ve never gotten apt-get to actually do anything when running inside a container on target.