Installing miniconda on alpine linux fails

Question

I have been attempting to install miniconda on an Alpine linux docker image. The minimal "working" example of my failure can be reproduced with Docker as follows:

docker run --rm -it alpine sh
/ # apk update && apk add ca-certificates wget && update-ca-certificates
/ # wget https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-4.3.27-Linux-x86_64.sh -O ~/miniconda.sh
/ # sh miniconda.sh -b 
PREFIX=/root/miniconda3
installing: python-3.6.2-h02fb82a_12 ...
/root/miniconda.sh: line 361: /root/miniconda3/pkgs/python-3.6.2-h02fb82a_12/bin/python: not found

The file that it looks for is there, though:

/ # ls /root/miniconda3/pkgs/python-3.6.2-h02fb82a_12/bin/python
/root/miniconda3/pkgs/python-3.6.2-h02fb82a_12/bin/python

I would appreciate some insight on this error. I have little idea of what to try next

Answer 1

According to @VladFrolov, anaconda's python is linked to glibc, which isn't available in alpine. For more details about how he built an alpine image with conda, look at https://github.com/frol/docker-alpine-miniconda3

PS: Looks like @VladFrolov now maintains miniconda3:alpine official image https://github.com/ContinuumIO/docker-images/blob/master/miniconda3/alpine/Dockerfile ( Thx for pointing out @rpanai )