I'm trying to build a basic Docker container based on a tutorial. I am on Windows 10 Home version 2004, and I am using the standard command line. I've created the following Docker file to facilitate this, with the only change from the tutorial's version being my older version of gcc:
FROM gcc:6.3.0
RUN apt-get -qq update
RUN apt-get -qq upgrade
RUN apt-get -qq install cmake
RUN apt-get install libboost-all-dev=1.62.0.1
RUN apt-get -qq install build-essential libtcmalloc-minimal4 && \
ln -s /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4 /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so
Once the script gets to the step where it tries to install libboost-all-dev I get the following output:
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Version '1.62.0.1' for 'libboost-all-dev' was not found
The command '/bin/sh -c apt-get install libboost-all-dev=1.62.0.1' returned a non-zero code: 100
and the build stops.
I've tried updating the build script to use the current version of Boost (1.74.0) as well and get the same issue. I'm not really finding any solutions in my research online and the output is not very helpful in trying to figure out what the issue is. Could anyone with more experience with installing Boost as part of the Docker process point me in the right direction?
The package manager will only be able to install versions of Boost that it knows exist, based on the enabled package manager repositories. There is typically only one version of Boost in the default repositories. In my experience, this applies to any Linux OS that supplies Boost, not only those that are run within a Docker container.
The Docker image you started with, gcc:6.3.0, appears to have only Boost version 1.55.0.2, so requesting any other version will yield the same error.
If you want a different version of Boost in your image, you can follow the typical steps for installing a different version of Boost outside a Docker container. These steps are well-documented on Stack Overflow, or you might find a repository such as this to enable in your package manager to directly install it from apt-get.