Getting SimNIBS GUI to work within the docker environment

1. Run the command xhost +"local:docker@" in a terminal use this for the following steps

2. Bind the container using the following specification:

   -v /usr/lib/nvidia-xxx:/usr/lib/nvidia-xxx
   -v /usr/lib32/nvidia-xxx:/usr/lib32/nvidia-xxx
   -e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY
   --privileged
   -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix

3. Within the container install pyqt5, pyopengl Python packages

4. Install qt5-default

5. export PATH="/usr/lib/nvidia-xxx/bin":$PATH

6. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/nvidia-xxx:/usr/lib32/nvidia-xxx":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Now you should be able to run SimNIBS GUI without any problems!

Solution from: SoonminHwang/dockers#1

Example command:

sudo docker run
-v /usr/lib/nvidia-418:/usr/lib/nvidia-418
-v /usr/lib32/nvidia-418:/usr/lib32/nvidia-418
-e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY
--privileged
-v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix pip install pyqt5 pyopengl apt-get install qt5-default export PATH="/usr/lib/nvidia-418/bin":$PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/nvidia-418:/usr/lib32/nvidia-418":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH