Installing a linux package for app engine instance, how to?

[Pub Lift]

Hello!

I'm having a bit of an issue with my app. I'm using nodejs and it interacts with gnuplot, but I'm not sure how to install the gnuplot package after deploying the app. 

Am I doing this right?

Dockerfile
FROM gcr.io/google_appengine/nodejs


RUN apt-get -qq update && apt-get -qq -y install gnuplot

app.yaml
runtime: custom
env: flex
vm: true

# Temporary setting to keep gcloud from uploading node_modules
skip_files:
 - ^node_modules$


manual_scaling:
  instances: 1

When I run

gcloud app deploy

, the console just stays stuck on 

Building and pushing image for service [default]

Can anyone tell me what I'm possibly doing wrong? Thanks!

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

There is an often repeated advice, to run one application per Docker container. If you decide to follow that piece of advice, you could take a look at the Container Engine. If you choose to install the app in  the same container, you need to commit the change with “docker commit”.

Why don’t you want the node.js files to get deployed? It may prove difficult to have node.js specific functionality without them.

[Pub Lift]

Oh I do want to use node.js with the application, maybe I made my question not clear. I'm using an npm package that interacts with gnuplot, which is required to be installed inside the container in which my nodejs application resides. So within the nodejs container I want to install gnuplot, but I wasn't sure how to.

But I managed to figure it out through Custom runtimes anyhow.

[Justin Beckwith]

Could you delete the line that says "vm: true" and try again? 

[Pub Lift]

ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) An error occurred while parsing file: [/home/adcruz/Documents/Publift/dashboard/app.yaml]
No URLMap entries found in application configuration

And I do not want to use

env: flex

either for the time being because it doesn't seem to want to use our custom domain

[Justin Beckwith]

We should be able to get your custom domain set up for you on env:flex.  Lorne (cc'd) should be able to help us out here :) 

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[Pub Lift]

Thanks! However I already submitted an application for that already through here https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/7296073?visit_id=1-636207217772226127-1165733838&rd=1 Though I just noticed the page changed.

On Saturday, January 21, 2017 at 6:14:16 PM UTC+11, Justin Beckwith wrote:

We should be able to get your custom domain set up for you on env:flex.  Lorne (cc'd) should be able to help us out here :) 

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[Lorne Kligerman]

Hi Adam,

We had a bit of a backlog but I just double checked and your domain should now be good to go.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Cheers,

Lorne.