Docker to Create Hybrid Linux Distributions¶

TLDR; Run Ubuntu available dpkg on Centos through Docker

I needed, (OK, fine - I wanted…) to have the 2.12 version of QGIS 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