Pyvista not available with docker due to lack of vtk

jackhale · July 22, 2022, 8:08am

Unfortunately there are no binary wheels of VTK for Linux arm64 so we cannot straightforwardly include pyvista, which depends on VTK, in our arm64 docker image.

github.com

FEniCS/dolfinx/blob/main/docker/Dockerfile#L487


      
          RUN pip3 install --upgrade --no-cache-dir jupyter jupyterlab
          
          
# pyvista dependencies from apt
          RUN apt-get -qq update && \
              apt-get -y install libgl1-mesa-dev xvfb && \
              apt-get clean && \
              rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
          
          
# pyvista dependencies from pip. Only compatible with x86-64 (amd64).
          # matplotlib improves plotting quality with better color maps and properly rendering colorbars.
          RUN dpkgArch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)"; \
              case "$dpkgArch" in amd64) \
              pip3 install --no-cache-dir pyvista==${PYVISTA_VERSION} ;; \
              esac; \
              pip3 install --no-cache-dir matplotlib
          
          
# Jupyter Notebook kernel specification for complex build DOLFINx
          ADD dolfinx/docker/complex-kernel.json /usr/local/share/jupyter/kernels/python3-complex/kernel.json
          
          
EXPOSE 8888/tcp
          ENV SHELL /bin/bash

It seems like it is technically possible to build VTK arm64 wheels so we can hope that these become available in the future and then we can enable pyvista in our arm64 images.

https://docs.pyvista.org/extras/building_vtk.html

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