Installing LaTeX into Google's Debian8 docker image

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to install LaTeX (specifically, this texlive package) into Google's Debian8 Docker image, which is called gcr.io/google-appengine/debian8. I wish I could provide a link to that, but I can't find it on Docker or on GitHub. Actually, I'm using this image which derives indirectly from it.

If I try and install it into the image I get an error:

> apt-get install texlive
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package texlive

I suspect I need to add an appropriate source (and possibly key) to the apt sources, but I have no idea how to figure out what exactly. I believe I'd end up with a Docker command along the lines of this (but likely simpler):

RUN \
  apt-get -q update && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y -q curl git ca-certificates apt-transport-https openssh-client && \
  curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add - && \
  curl https://storage.googleapis.com/download.dartlang.org/linux/debian/dart_stable.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dart_stable.list && \
  curl https://storage.googleapis.com/download.dartlang.org/linux/debian/dart_unstable.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dart_unstable.list && \
  apt-get update && \
  apt-get install dart=$DART_VERSION-1 && \
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Can anyone point me in the right direction here? How do I determine what needs to be added to /etc/apt/sources to make the texlive package show up?

Answer 1

An example with docker on **macos 10.14 **, you start the image with bash.

MacBook-Pro:~ em$ docker run -it gcr.io/google-appengine/debian8 /bin/bash

You try to install textlive

root@6b616ce25c70:/# apt-get install -d  texlive
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package texlive

The image provided by Google is stripped, so many temporary files are removed.

So you must run apt-get update

root@6b616ce25c70:/# apt-get update
Ign http://httpredir.debian.org jessie InRelease
Get:1 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease [44.9 kB]
Get:3 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2420 B]
Get:4 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]
Get:5 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages [23.0 kB]
Get:6 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages [818 kB]
Get:7 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [9098 kB]
Fetched 10.3 MB in 9s (1132 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Now you can run apt-get install texlive

root@6b616ce25c70:/# apt-get install -d  texlive
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  cpp cpp-4.9 dbus file fontconfig fontconfig-config 
  .../...
Suggested packages:
  cpp-doc gcc-4.9-locales dbus-x11 ghostscript-x apache2 
  ../..  
Recommended packages:
  libarchive-tar-perl wish
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cpp cpp-4.9 dbus file fontconfig 
  ../..  
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gcc-4.9-base libgcc1 libstdc++6
3 upgraded, 253 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
Need to get 441 MB of archives.
After this operation, 897 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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