docker-build issue: "Package 'libpng12-dev' has no installation candidate"

[torfinnberset]

There's an error when performing docker build, seemingly by a package which has been removed:

$ docker build -t "kitware/cdash-docker" .

Sending build context to Docker daemon  119.8kB
Step 1/10 : FROM php:7.0-apache
 ---> aa67a9c9814f
Step 2/10 : LABEL maintainer="Omar Padron <omar.padron@kitware.com>"
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 2b951716908f
Step 3/10 : RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | bash                        && apt-get install -y git libbz2-dev libfreetype6-dev libjpeg62-turbo-dev         libmcrypt-dev libpng12-dev libpq-dev libxslt-dev libxss1 nodejs unzip wget     zip                                                                         && docker-php-ext-configure pgsql --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql                && docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/                                              --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include/                   && docker-php-ext-install -j$(nproc) bcmath bz2 gd pdo_mysql pdo_pgsql xsl     && pecl install xdebug-2.5.5                                                   && docker-php-ext-enable xdebug                                                && (                                                                                echo '544e09ee 996cdf60 ece3804a bc52599c'                                   ; echo '22b1f40f 4323403c 44d44fdf dd586475'                                   ; echo 'ca9813a8 58088ffb c1f233e9 b180f061'                                   ) | tr -d "\\n " | sed 's/$/  -/g' > checksum                               && curl -o - 'https://getcomposer.org/installer'                               |  tee composer-setup.php                                                      |  sha384sum -c checksum                                                       && rm checksum                                                                 || ( rm -f checksum composer-setup.php && false )                              && php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer     && php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"                                      && composer self-update --no-interaction
 ---> Running in 6a9ca735facb

## Installing the NodeSource Node.js 6.x LTS Boron repo...


## Populating apt-get cache...

+ apt-get update
Get:1 http://security-cdn.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease [94.3 kB]
Get:3 http://security-cdn.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages [501 kB]
Ign:2 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Get:4 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease [91.0 kB]
Get:5 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release [118 kB]
Get:6 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates/main amd64 Packages [27.4 kB]
Get:7 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release.gpg [2434 B]
Get:8 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages [7082 kB]
Fetched 7917 kB in 3s (2372 kB/s)
Reading package lists...

## Installing packages required for setup: apt-transport-https lsb-release gnupg...

+ apt-get install -y apt-transport-https lsb-release gnupg > /dev/null 2>&1

## Confirming "stretch" is supported...

+ curl -sLf -o /dev/null 'https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x/dists/stretch/Release'

## Adding the NodeSource signing key to your keyring...

+ curl -s https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | apt-key add -
Warning: apt-key output should not be parsed (stdout is not a terminal)
OK

## Creating apt sources list file for the NodeSource Node.js 6.x LTS Boron repo...

+ echo 'deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x stretch main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
+ echo 'deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x stretch main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list

## Running `apt-get update` for you...

+ apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security-cdn.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease
Get:2 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x stretch InRelease [4608 B]
Ign:3 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Get:4 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x stretch/main amd64 Packages [1007 B]
Hit:5 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Fetched 5615 B in 0s (11.8 kB/s)
Reading package lists...

## Run `sudo apt-get install -y nodejs` to install Node.js 6.x LTS Boron and npm
## You may also need development tools to build native addons:
     sudo apt-get install gcc g++ make
## To install the Yarn package manager, run:
     curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
     echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
     sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn


Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package libpng12-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libpng12-dev' has no installation candidate
The command '/bin/sh -c curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | bash                        && apt-get install -y git libbz2-dev libfreetype6-dev libjpeg62-turbo-dev         libmcrypt-dev libpng12-dev libpq-dev libxslt-dev libxss1 nodejs unzip wget     zip                                                                         && docker-php-ext-configure pgsql --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql                && docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/                                              --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include/                   && docker-php-ext-install -j$(nproc) bcmath bz2 gd pdo_mysql pdo_pgsql xsl     && pecl install xdebug-2.5.5                                                   && docker-php-ext-enable xdebug                                                && (                                                                                echo '544e09ee 996cdf60 ece3804a bc52599c'                                   ; echo '22b1f40f 4323403c 44d44fdf dd586475'                                   ; echo 'ca9813a8 58088ffb c1f233e9 b180f061'                                   ) | tr -d "\\n " | sed 's/$/  -/g' > checksum                               && curl -o - 'https://getcomposer.org/installer'                               |  tee composer-setup.php                                                      |  sha384sum -c checksum                                                       && rm checksum                                                                 || ( rm -f checksum composer-setup.php && false )                              && php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer     && php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"                                      && composer self-update --no-interaction' returned a non-zero code: 1

[hjmjohnson]

See PR #5 which seems to address this failure.

[nadav74]

The correct fix is to replace libpng12-dev with libpng-dev per this link.