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Alpine with proj executable not found. Please set the PROJ_DIR variable

See original GitHub issue

Dockerfile

FROM python3.7-alpine

RUN apk add proj proj-dev
RUN pip install pyproj

get error

  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py get_requires_for_build_wheel /tmp/tmp_8k0qhw3
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-zzif953y/pyproj
  Complete output (1 lines):
  proj executable not found. Please set the PROJ_DIR variable.For more information see: https://pyproj4.github.io/pyproj/stable/installation.html
  ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py get_requires_for_build_wheel /tmp/tmp_8k0qhw3 Check the logs for full command output.

apk add proj installed PROJ sucessful, but I can‘t get PROJ_DIR

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:10 (5 by maintainers)

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7reactions

maynewongcommented, Mar 28, 2020

@snowman2, found the solution by install proj-util, Thanks

apk add proj-util

/code # which proj
/usr/bin/proj

2reactions

mkdthangacommented, Jun 26, 2020

@snowman2, found the solution by install proj-util, Thanks
apk add proj-util

/code # which proj
/usr/bin/proj

[Solved] This helped: ENV PROJ_DIR=/usr

#################### Dockerfile (Updated the PROJ_DIR variable)################### FROM alpine:latest

ENV LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 ENV LANG=C.UTF-8 ENV PROJ_DIR=/usr

RUN addgroup -S appuser ; adduser -S appuser -G appuser -h /app ;
chown appuser:appuser /app

WORKDIR /app COPY --chown=appuser:appuser / /app

RUN apk add --update --no-cache python3 libpq uwsgi-python3;
apk add --no-cache python3-dev py3-pip alpine-sdk postgresql-dev postgresql;
*apk add proj proj-dev;
apk add proj-util;
/usr/bin/proj;* pip3 install --upgrade pip ;
pip3 install --upgrade setuptools;
pip3 install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

EXPOSE 5432

CMD [“python3”, “/app/subscriber_db.py”, “/app/resolver.py”]

####################### Requirements.txt ################ numpy==1.19.0 pandas==1.0.5 sqlalchemy==1.3.16 paho-mqtt==1.5.0 psycopg2==2.8.5 six==1.14.0 requests==2.24.0 cython pyproj scipy==1.5.0 statistics==1.0.3.5 matplotlib

###################### Error is fixed #####################

**Collecting pyproj
  Downloading pyproj-2.6.1.post1.tar.gz (545 kB)
  Installing build dependencies: started
  Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done'
  Getting requirements to build wheel: started
  Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'done'
    Preparing wheel metadata: started
    Preparing wheel metadata: finished with status 'done'**