Home Assistant Docker image (0.98.5) on Ubuntu 18.04.3 will no longer allow the manual install of opencv-python

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Buried in the 0.98 blog post:

0.98: Improved entity management, options and Home Assistant Alerts

After 0.98.0 update, cannot install opencv. I have Home Assistant in Docker - usually after pulling the new image and recreating the container, I have to go to the terminal and run: pip3 install opencv-python-headless With the new docker image being based on Apline instead of Debian this no longer works. I did some research - and this is beyond my knowledge - but I believe it is due to the fact that Debian uses GNU libc and Alpine uses musl libc. I guess because of the differences musl lib…

As you have found - the move from Debian to Alpine changes the libraries (GNU to Musl) and many python packages are not built for this (due to manywheel being for GNU). I was able to follow the below instruction to successfully build openCV on my system from source - but this is not worth the work to do every time HA updates.

https://docs.opencv.org/master/d7/d9f/tutorial_linux_install.html

I’m a novice, so I can follow instructions decently, but do not have the knowledge of what would need to be done to make this a package available on the python library site.

I hope this helped!
Cheers!
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