Running LibrePythonista in linuxserver/libreoffice docker

In order to install LibrePythonista in linuxserver/libreoffice docker (Alpine) image py3-pip must be installed. The other packages are required to install matplotlib.

Create a docker and a docker-compose.yml files and place them in the same folder. Use the contents from the examples below.

Note that volumes are optional. If you want to follow this yml file on Linux or Mac then create a folder in your home folder named vm_shared and that folder will be shared with you docker image.

volumes:
  - ~/vm_shared:/vm_shared # Mount ~/vm_shared to /vm_shared inside the container

Steps after docker image is running

Set LibreOffice Macro Security to Medium
Install LibrePythonista Extension into LibreOffice - restart when prompted
On Restart LibrePythonista will install dependencies.
After dependencies are install restart LibreOffice one more time. At this point Extension should be working.

Note: The experimental python editor will not work in this configuration. Currently the editor depends on pywebview and I have not yet figured out how to get this working in this Alpine image.

To see the contents of the log file start a terminal and run:

cat /config/.config/libreoffice/4/user/libre_pythonista.log

docker-compose.yml

The contents of docker-compose.yml

services:
  linuxserver_app:
    network_mode: "bridge"
    build:
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    # user: root
    container_name: linuxserver_container
    security_opt:
      - seccomp:unconfined #optional
    environment:
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
      - 3001:3001
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ~/vm_shared:/vm_shared # Mount ~/vm_shared to /vm_shared inside the container

Docker

The contents of docker file

FROM linuxserver/libreoffice:latest

RUN apk update \
    && apk add --no-cache --update py3-pip \
    gcc \
    g++ \
    musl-dev \
    python3-dev \
    freetype-dev \
    libpng-dev pkgconfig

# Securty to prevent sudo actions
RUN > /etc/sudoers.d/wheel

Security

This command will disable sudo access, thereby preventing users from unintentionally shutting down the container or executing privileged commands.

RUN > /etc/sudoers.d/wheel

Or you can add this code to your Dockerfile to disable shell completely:

RUN for user in $(cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd); do \
        usermod -s /usr/sbin/nologin "$user"; \
    done

Command

Docker command to build docker image.

docker compose -f 'docker-compose.yml' up -d --build 'linuxserver_app'