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mchinaloy
mchinaloy

Reputation: 1494

Docker Alpine /bin/sh apk not found

I am building a new Docker image with:

FROM alpine:3.4
RUN apk upgrade --update

However, its failing with the error:

[INFO] /bin/sh: apk: not found

This seems to work fine on my local machine (Mac OSX) but when I try building it on a Linux CentOS 7 machine it fails.

Upvotes: 29

Views: 58887

Answers (2)

Robert J
Robert J

Reputation: 968

I ran into something like this. It completely blew my mind, and I was questioning my sanity for a bit until I realized that /sbin wasn't in my container's PATH.

# interactive session
PATH="${PATH}:/sbin"

# Dockerfile
ENV PATH="${PATH}:/sbin"

If you type command -v apk in an interactive session in your container's base image and compare that directory with the container's $PATH that should get you squared away.

If command -v apk doesn't work for you, you could try to find it via

find / -name apk -type f -exec dirname "{}" ";"

To the best of my knowledge this is always in /sbin. However you get there, just ensure that the apk binary's location is part of $PATH

TL;DR - If you see this error, ensure that your executable's dirname is in your $PATH

Upvotes: 11

mchinaloy
mchinaloy

Reputation: 1494

In the end we upgraded our projects to use this Docker Maven plugin: https://github.com/fabric8io/fabric8-maven-plugin. No issue thus far.

Upvotes: 1

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