Quarto version in Docker

I realized that installing the latest version of Quarto in Docker will not lead to a reproducible environment since the latest Docker version depends on the day an image is build. So I was looking for a Dockerfile configuration to install a specified version of Quarto in Docker.

Quarto keeps a list of releases so that I had to figure out what the download url is. This was easy. The version number is used in the Quarto section of a Docker file three times so that I also wanted to find a way to specify that version in variable. This was a little more tricky.

For the final solution I needed several attempts but learned someting about defining arguments in a Dockerfile.

Here is the solution I came up with.

ARG QUARTO_VERSION=1.3.450
RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl gdebi-core
RUN curl -LO https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/download/v${QUARTO_VERSION}/quarto-${QUARTO_VERSION}-linux-amd64.deb
RUN gdebi --non-interactive quarto-${QUARTO_VERSION}-linux-amd64.deb
RUN install2.r markdown reticulate
# RUN quarto install tinytex

This is the version for the latest release I have used so far.

RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl gdebi-core
RUN curl -LO https://quarto.org/download/latest/quarto-linux-amd64.deb
RUN gdebi --non-interactive quarto-linux-amd64.deb
RUN install2.r markdown reticulate
# RUN quarto install tinytex