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Is there a best practice on setting up glibc on docker alpine linux base image with correct paths so any spawned process can correctly reference the location of the installed libc libraries?
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If you want to run glibc programs in Alpine Linux, there are a few ways of doing so. You can install the gcompat compatibility layer, you can install glibc alongside musl (manually, as it isn't packaged), or you could do it the easy way and use either Flatpak (the easiest) or a chroot.
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Yes there is,
I've used a custom built glibc to install a JRE on it.
You can find it here
You can use wget or curl to get the code and apk to install them
UPDATED commands see comments below
apk --no-cache add ca-certificates wget wget -q -O /etc/apk/keys/sgerrand.rsa.pub https://alpine-pkgs.sgerrand.com/sgerrand.rsa.pub wget https://github.com/sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc/releases/download/2.28-r0/glibc-2.28-r0.apk apk add glibc-2.28-r0.apk It worked perfectly for me
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Installing the glibc compatibility libraries has worked for me so far every time
apk add gcompat
https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/gcompat
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