Error when installing python3 packages in alpine

python docker alpine
Diego Gallegos picture Diego Gallegos · Apr 18, 2018 · Viewed 49.3k times · Source

I am currently building an image from alpine:3.7.

There are two packages that I am having problems with:

  • pendulum (specifically python-dateutils package)
  • service_identity (specifically attrs package)

The error that I receive it is:

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement setuptools (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for setuptools

Note: all packages are pre-cached on a directory using pip download.

The dockerfile looks as follows: 

RUN apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps <dev packages>
 && apk add --no-cache --update python3
 && pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools

RUN pip3 install -f ./python-packages --no-index -r requirements.txt ./python-packages/pkgs

....

dev-packages such as libffi-dev, libressl-dev, etc.

Answer

nickgryg picture nickgryg · Apr 18, 2018

I'm not sure about the full list of dev-packages to build in the question, but it should be the following: g++ (GNU C++ standard library and compiler), python3-dev (python3 development files), libffi-dev (libffi development files) and openssl-dev (Toolkit for SSL v2/v3 and TLS v1 development files).

The Dockerfile is:

FROM alpine:3.7
RUN apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps g++ python3-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev && \
    apk add --no-cache --update python3 && \
    pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools
RUN pip3 install pendulum service_identity

Related questions

Error: pg_config executable not found when installing psycopg2 on Alpine in Docker

I'm trying to build a Flask app using Postgres with Docker. I'd like to connect to an AWS RDS instance of Postgres, but use Docker for my Flask app. However, when trying to set up psycopg2 it runs into an …

Read More
Installing numpy on Docker Alpine

I'm trying to install numpy in a docker container based on Alpine 3.1. I'm using the following Dockerfile: FROM alpine:3.1 RUN apk add --update make cmake gcc g++ gfortran RUN apk add --update python py-pip python-dev RUN pip install cython RUN …

Read More
"The headers or library files could not be found for jpeg" installing Pillow on Alpine Linux

I'm trying to run Python's Scrapy in a Docker container based on python:alpine. It was working before, but now I'd like to use Scrapy's Image Pipeline which requires me to install Pillow. As a simplified example, I tried the …

Read More