diff --git a/local/uvr-install.sh b/local/uvr-install.sh
index 14b7f78..c5d37d3 100755
--- a/local/uvr-install.sh
+++ b/local/uvr-install.sh
@@ -87,4 +87,23 @@ cd "$project_dir"
 # --no-install: resolve and lock only. The install happens in the sync below,
 # which is the only command that honours --library.
 "$uvr_bin" add --no-install "$@"
+
+# TEMPORARY (drop once the images ship a uvr above v0.4.5): the sync below runs
+# `apt-get install` for every resolved system dependency without refreshing the
+# index first, and the ubuntu build images end their apt layers with
+# `rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*`. With no index apt cannot resolve a package that
+# exists and is enabled, so `igraph needs: libglpk-dev` fails the whole build
+# with `E: Unable to locate package libglpk-dev` on ubuntu 26.04.
+#
+# Fixed upstream in `e491b2e`, tagged one day after v0.4.5 (nbafrank/uvr#250),
+# and the images pick it up via build-env-images#23 — but only after an image
+# rebuild is triggered, which is why this runs here too.
+#
+# apt only: `apk add` fetches its index implicitly and dnf refreshes expired
+# metadata on its own. Non-fatal, since a refresh failure still leaves whatever
+# index is already there, and the install's own error is the more actionable one.
+if command -v apt-get >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  apt-get update -qq || echo "warning: apt-get update failed; continuing" >&2
+fi
+
 "$uvr_bin" sync --library "$target_lib" --install-system-deps