TinyTex and Chromium is not being installed in rocker docker container

[royfrancis]

Description

docker run -u 1000:1000 ghcr.io/rocker-org/geospatial:4.4 quarto check
Quarto 1.5.57
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
      Deno version 1.41.0: OK
      Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.5.57
      Path: /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (not installed)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: Installation From Path
      Path: /usr/local/texlive/bin/linux
      Version: 2025

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.12.3
      Path: /usr/bin/python3
      Jupyter: (None)

      Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
      Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

      There is an unactivated Python environment in root. Did you forget to activate it?

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.4.3
      Path: /usr/local/lib/R
      LibPaths:
        - /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
        - /usr/local/lib/R/library
      knitr: 1.50
      rmarkdown: 2.29

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

TinyTex and Chromium are listed as not installed.

Create a dockerfile:

FROM ghcr.io/rocker-org/geospatial:4.4
RUN quarto install tinytex \
    && quarto install chromium

docker build --platform=linux/amd64 -t test-quarto .

docker run -u 1000:1000 test-quarto quarto check
Quarto 1.5.57
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
      Deno version 1.41.0: OK
      Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.5.57
      Path: /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (not installed)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: Installation From Path
      Path: /usr/local/texlive/bin/linux
      Version: 2025

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.12.3
      Path: /usr/bin/python3
      Jupyter: (None)

      Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
      Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

      There is an unactivated Python environment in root. Did you forget to activate it?

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.4.3
      Path: /usr/local/lib/R
      LibPaths:
        - /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
        - /usr/local/lib/R/library
      knitr: 1.50
      rmarkdown: 2.29

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

TinyTex and Chromium are still listed as not installed. This installation seems to work when trying outside the container on a local installation of quarto.

OS: Ubuntu Focal

[mcanouil]

Ask the maintainers of the image which are stated in the image name, i.e., https://rocker.org.
Quarto team is not responsible of community based Docker images.

Note that the Rocker project documents the scripts used in the images and their location to install additional features.

[cderv]

@royfrancis I do believe this is because you are running the command as -u 1000:1000 but you are not installing with the same user. quarto install will install for the user
Try

docker run test-quarto quarto check

So I think you need USER instruction before RUN or you need to install differently and add to PATH while tweaking permissions.