python-dev failed to fetch during provisioning

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after vagrant up I was stuck at the apt name=python-dev with this error

TASK: [apt name=python-dev] ***************************************************
failed: [default] => {"failed": true}
stderr: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl-dev_1.0.1-4ubuntu5.18_i386.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.24 80]
Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl-doc_1.0.1-4ubuntu5.18_all.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.24 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

stdout: Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libexpat1-dev libssl-dev libssl-doc python2.7-dev zlib1g-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libexpat1-dev libssl-dev libssl-doc python-dev python2.7-dev zlib1g-dev
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,460 kB/32.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 44.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main libssl-dev i386 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.18
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80]
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main libssl-dev i386 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.18
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.24 80]
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main libssl-doc all 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.18
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.24 80]

msg: 'apt-get install 'python-dev' ' failed: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl-dev_1.0.1-4ubuntu5.18_i386.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.24 80]
Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl-doc_1.0.1-4ubuntu5.18_all.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.24 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?


FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************

I fixed it by adding this line to line 10 of playbook.yml

    - apt: update_cache=yes

Hope this is helpful for anyone on similar problem.
Cheers,