Unable to install pysam on alpine linux

[emrebayramc]

Because alpine is not "manylinux" it is not possible to install pysam on alpine.

I was able to install with a workaround:

• Installed glibc on alpine
• installed conda on alpine
  then was able to install pysam using conda.

The problem is once you install glibc on alpine it is creating many problems along the way.

So it would be great if there was a pysam alpine package.

[dguittet]

Thanks @kazanture for sharing the workaround. I'm not familiar with alpine linux so I don't know what that process would look like. PySAM distributes C binaries built from NREL/sam and NREL/ssc, but you could always try building PySAM on your alpine machine from source to avoid the glibc issue. The instructions for Installing NREL-PySAM Locally are here: https://github.com/NREL/pysam/wiki/Building,-Packaging-and-Distributing

[Peque]

@kazanture I would recommend you against using Alpine. They chose to use musl libc, which will cause many issues, specially with the Python scientific ecosystem.

I would recommend python-slim instead, if the image size is a concern. 😊