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

pandas is considered a community supported package, so the answers pointing to edge/testing are not going to work as Alpine does not officially support pandas as a core package (it still works, it's just not supported by the core Alpine developers).

Try this Dockerfile:

FROM python:3.8-alpine
RUN echo "@community http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community" >> /etc/apk/repositories \
&& apk add py3-pandas@community

This works for the vanilla Alpine image too, using FROM alpine:3.12.