diff --git a/buildserver/cookbooks/fdroidbuild-general/recipes/default.rb b/buildserver/cookbooks/fdroidbuild-general/recipes/default.rb
index 39085928..5c405597 100644
--- a/buildserver/cookbooks/fdroidbuild-general/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/buildserver/cookbooks/fdroidbuild-general/recipes/default.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ 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 transfig texinfo}.each do |pkg|