Install inotify tools on CI#246
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Inotify tools help with filesystem IO. Apparently this is available on most OS, but not on the images used for CI. So, this leads to error messages as part of test runs, which are detracting when looking for real error messages:
Here are some resources that list this:
And official installation instructions from phoenix: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/installation.html#inotify-tools-for-linux-users
So I followed the official instructions here: https://github.com/inotify-tools/inotify-tools/wiki#debianubuntu and that helps to suppress the error message.
It is not only phoenix, I did the same thing on my other project using testcontainers.