I've been reading the man pages for apk add, but I don't fully understand how to use the --force-broken-world flag. I was trying to install Python 2.7.6 into an Alpine image, but I got the followi...

Is there any way to disable SSL verification at installing some packages? I found how to add my certificate in trusted certificates, but I'd rather do disable this checking. I need it to avoid foll...

My docker image based on alpine Linex can not get anything from network. So the command "apk add xxx" is valid. Now my idea is downloading the .apk file and coping it into the docker container. But...

I want to add terraform version 0.12.21 in an alpine container, but I can only add 0.11.0 using apk. If I try to add it as the desired version I get the following error: / # apk upgrade terraform==...

When trying to install pdftk apk throws this error. ERROR: unsatisfiable constraints: pdftk (missing): required by: world[pdftk] Here is the whole output: /opt/app # apk add pdftk fetch http://d...

I wanted to reduce my docker image and switched to an alpine base image instead. This lead to problems bash not finding apt. Turns out, I have to use apk instead. However, it does not seem to find ...

What is .build-deps in the following command? I can't find an explanation in the Alpine docs. Is this a file that is predefined? Is see this referenced in many Dockerfiles. RUN apk add --no-cache ...

I'm trying to install postgis into a postgres container. Dockerfile: FROM postgres:9.6.4-alpine RUN apk update \ && apk add -u postgresql-9.6-postgis-2.4 postgresql-9.6-postgis-2.4-scrip...

I'm attempting transition my base docker image from centos 7 to alpine, however I receive gcc errors when trying to install pip packages. This is a snippet of the error received: Successfully bui...

When creating Dockerfiles using an Alpine image, I have often seen the use of either apk add --no-cache, or apk add followed by an rm /var/cache/apk/* statement. I am curious to know whether maki...

I try to install vips-dev package to alpine linux 3.8. But get following error: docker run -it --rm alpine:3.8 /bin/sh -c "apk add --update --no-cache --repository http://dl-3.alpinelinux.org/alpi...

I'm using docker python:3.5-alpine3.4 image and trying to install lapack-dev but it keeps failing. It is complaining that it can't find libgfortran.so.5. However, I've tried installing libgfortran ...

I'm trying to make the absolute smallest Docker image I can get away with, so I have switched from ubuntu as my base to alpine. For apt, I used to use --no-install-recommends to minimize "dependen...

I am trying to build a docker image based on Alpine and I need to install few packages in it. Here is exactly what I am trying to do: FROM alpine:latest RUN apk --no-cache add ca-certificates=2016...