ale-py installation issue in Docker image

[jugheadjones10]

FROM python:3.10

ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive 
RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get -y install python3-pip
RUN ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

ARG CACHE_BUST=$(date +%s)
RUN echo "$CACHE_BUST" && python --version


RUN pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

RUN pip install ale-py

Building the above gives this error:
3.350 ERROR: Failed building wheel for ale-py
3.350 Failed to build ale-py
3.366 ERROR: ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (ale-py)

I've tried many python versions and ale-versions, to no avail.

[jugheadjones10]

Have tried a lot a lot of things but I just can't seem to get ale-py to install properly in Docker

[pseudo-rnd-thoughts]

What is the install error?

[jugheadjones10]

@pseudo-rnd-thoughts
6.062 ERROR: Failed building wheel for ale-py
6.063 Failed to build ale-py
6.154 ERROR: Could not build wheels for ale-py which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

[jugheadjones10]

Another error I often see when trying out different base images and Docker configurations:

4.666 RuntimeError
4.666
4.666 Unable to find installation candidates for ale-py (0.8.1)

[jugheadjones10]

Ok after a ton of trial and error I found these very specific conditions under which it will work:

# Use the official Python image with a compatible version
FROM python:3.9-slim

# Set environment variables to prevent prompts during package installations
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

# Install system dependencies, including SDL2 development libraries
RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get -y install \
        python3-pip \
        xvfb \
        ffmpeg \
        git \
        build-essential \
        cmake \
        zlib1g-dev \
        libbz2-dev \
        libpng-dev \
        libopencv-dev \
        libsdl2-dev 
RUN ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

RUN pip install poetry --upgrade
COPY pyproject.toml pyproject.toml
COPY poetry.lock poetry.lock

RUN poetry install

(ale-py 0.10.1 is listed as a dependency in pyproject.toml)