.. post:: 2015-11-15
   :tags: docker, ubuntu, centos, qgis
   :category: docker
   :author: Tim Cera
   :location: Gainesville, FL
   :language: en

Docker to Create Hybrid Linux Distributions
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TLDR; Run Ubuntu available dpkg on Centos through Docker

I needed, (OK, fine - I wanted...) to have the 2.12 version of
`QGIS
<http://qgis.org>`_ on my Centos machine.  I also didn't want to compile the
durn thing myself. For Centos, the EPEL/EGIS combination of repositories has
a very old version of qgis and so a "sudo yum install qgis" wasn't going give
me what I wanted.

Docker to the rescue.

My Dockerfile and support scripts are at
https://bitbucket.org/timcera/docker-qgis-desktop-debian

To download the docker container::
    docker pull timcera/qgis-desktop-debian

To run either download the "qgis.sh" script at
https://bitbucket.org/timcera/docker-qgis-desktop-debian/ or make your own.

It works.