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FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• Where:
  Build file '/home/sp/code/android/react-native/ignite2/ChainReactApp2019/android/app/build.gradle' line: 175

• What went wrong:
  A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.

Could not find method packagingOptions() for arguments [build_7mj9g4t4y8hxpfkqvdkydcki9$_run_closure2@685b598e] on project ':app' of type org.gradle.api.Project.

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BUILD FAILED in 8s
ERROR: Could not find method packagingOptions() for arguments [build_7mj9g4t4y8hxpfkqvdkydcki9$_run_closure2@685b598e] on project ':app' of type org.gradle.api.Project.
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