Why does it take ages to install Pandas on Alpine Linux

Question

I\'ve noticed that installing Pandas and Numpy (it\'s dependency) in a Docker container using the base OS Alpine vs. CentOS or Debian takes much longer. I created a little t

Answer 1

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Look at the @jtlz2 answer with the latest update

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So, py3-pandas & py3-numpy packages moved to the testing alpine repository, so, you can download it by adding these lines in to the your Dockerfile:

RUN echo "http://dl-8.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing" >> /etc/apk/repositories \
  && apk update \
  && apk add py3-numpy py3-pandas

Hope it helps someone!

Alpine packages links:
- py3-pandas
- py3-numpy

Alpine repositories docks info.