Repair SQL Server on Linux After an Ubuntu Distribution Upgrade [Snippet]

SQL Server 2017 is supported on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Long-Term Support), however that version of Ubuntu Linux is now more than two years old, so you may be tempted to update Ubuntu to a more modern release such as Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver). Unfortunately (as of this writing), SQL Server 2017 is not supported on later versions of Ubuntu.

(Note: Ubuntu releases new distributions every six months. The version number 16.04 means that it was released in April 2016.)

The more adventurous among us who use SQL Server 2017 in a development environment — where we need to keep the Ubuntu distribution as up to date as possible — might run into the following issue:

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