Docker image for Jupyter+Maxima about maxima-jupyter

[robert-dodier]

Hi Alessandro, Thanks a lot for working on the Docker image! I think that could make it much easier to install Maxima-Jupyter.

However, I can't test it myself because I cannot install Docker. I have a 32 bit laptop but Docker requires 64 bit. Do you have any advice about installing Docker on a 32 bit system? I have asked this question in a Docker forum but didn't receive any reply.

Thanks again for your interest in Maxima-Jupyter, I appreciate it very much.

[aldib]

The Docker Toolbox doumentation specifically states that: To run Docker, your machine must have a 64-bit operating system running Windows 7 or higher.. Thus, it's unlikely that you'll find something that works out of the box. Probably your best option is to build docker from source using Linux. Although, it's not exactly what you need, this site shows a Dockerfile containing the steps required to build the docker daemon on Ubuntu 32 bits. I also found [this article in stackoverflow that claims success in getting docker to work on Ubuntu 16.04 32-bit. Sorry for not being more specific but I never faced this problem before. Alessandro

[robert-dodier]

Thanks for the info. I was able to successfully build Docker on my 32 bit system using the instructions given by https://stackoverflow.com/a/48881019. However, when I try to build the jupyter-maxima image, I find that sudo docker build -t alessandro.dibella/jupyter-maxima:latest . runs for a long time and then eventually says:

Step 2 : RUN apt-get update && 	apt-get -y remove maxima maxima-doc wxmaxima && 	apt-get -y install libzmq3-dev gnuplot
 ---> Running in 73665df06633
exec format error

I believe "exec format error" has something to do with 32 bit versus 64 bit -- perhaps there is an assumption in the jupyter-maxima configuration that the system is 64 bits? If you have any suggestions, I would be interested to hear.

[aldib]

It could be a problem with the Clozure compiler, I'm using ccl64 in the Dockerfile. Can you please try to edit the Dockerfile locally and change the 5 occurrences of ccl64 to ccl before building the image again?
If this doesn't solve the problem, we can troubleshoot each command but let's give this a try first.

[psychemedia]

@aldib I'm struggling to get your Dockerfile to run too?

After:

COPY src/ /usr/local/src/scripts/

the RUN command following it needs to be preceded by something like:

WORKDIR /usr/local/src/

otherwise the path is wrong.

I also think that the quicklisp.lisp file needs to be added to the src/lisp dir?

The cl-jupyter/install-cl-jupyter.py file tests config.lisp_implementation for various values including sbcl and ccl but not ccl64. I kept getting Can't assign LDT entry errors trying to use ccl in a Linux container, but could run some of the early steps using ccl64 if I edited install-cl-jupyter.py to allow ccl64.

Working step wise, I've got as far as:

ccl64 --load ./cl-jupyter.lisp
> Error: There is no package named "ASDF" .

Do you have a Github repo anywhere that successfully builds and deploys the Maxima kernel via Binderhub?

[aldib]

@psychemedia It's been few months since I last build that image but it was working for me at the time. Unfortunately, I'm completely swamped at work at the moment and I won'r be able to look at it for the next few weeks. I'll post an update here once it's fixed.

[psychemedia]

Ok, thanks...

I started trying to build a simpler one from the build-with-dependency instructions in this repo, but ArchLinux completely new to me and I got stuck trying to build the installation package...

### Dockerfile

#Build:
#docker build --tag p/m .
#Peek inside:
#docker run -it --entrypoint=/bin/bash p/m -i


FROM base/archlinux

#https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=229027
RUN useradd --create-home --shell=/bin/false build && usermod -L build
RUN echo "build ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
RUN echo "root ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers

WORKDIR /home/build
RUN curl -L -O https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/maxima-jupyter-git.tar.gz && \
    tar -xvf maxima-jupyter-git.tar.gz 

#Install required packages
RUN pacman -Sy --noconfirm  maxima
RUN pacman -Sy --noconfirm  jupyter
RUN pacman -Sy --noconfirm  git
RUN pacman -Sy --noconfirm binutils

RUN pacman -Sy --noconfirm fakeroot

RUN chown -R build maxima-jupyter-git

WORKDIR maxima-jupyter-git

#Copy the kernelspec
RUN mkdir -p /usr/local/share/jupyter/kernels/maxima && cp kernel.json /usr/local/share/jupyter/kernels/maxima

#We can't run makepkg as root?
USER build
RUN makepkg -SCsri

USER root
#Following is broken...
#RUN pacman -U  *.pkg.tar.xz

#CMD ["jupyter", "console", "--kernel=maxima"]