Dockerfile

# based on https://github.com/naftulikay/docker-bionic-vm/blob/master/Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu:18.04
ENV container=docker TERM=xterm LC_ALL=en_US LANGUAGE=en_US LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# stop some annoying interactive prompts, also need "-yq" on apt-get
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

# locale
RUN apt-get update -q > /dev/null && \
  apt-get install --no-install-recommends -yq apt-utils locales language-pack-en dialog > /dev/null && \
  locale-gen $LANGUAGE $LANG

# add sudo commmand
RUN apt-get -yq install sudo > /dev/null

# create and switch to a non-priviliged (but sudo-enabled) user, arbitrary name
RUN echo "nonprivuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
RUN useradd --no-log-init --home-dir /home/nonprivuser --create-home --shell /bin/bash nonprivuser && adduser nonprivuser sudo
USER nonprivuser 
WORKDIR /home/nonprivuser

# Git/Curl -- don't disable recommends here or you won't have Certification Authority certificates and will fail
RUN sudo apt-get install -yq git curl > /dev/null

# packages specific to your needs
RUN sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -yq make gfortran libcoarrays-dev libopenmpi-dev open-coarrays-bin > /dev/null && \
  sudo apt-get clean -q

# latest cmake
RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/scivision/cmake-utils && \
  mkdir -v /home/nonprivuser/.local && \
  cd cmake-utils && PREFIX=/home/nonprivuser/.local ./cmake_setup.sh > /dev/null  && \
  mv -v /home/nonprivuser/.local/cmake* /home/nonprivuser/.local/cmake

ENV PATH=$PATH:/home/nonprivuser/.local/cmake/bin

# other optional installs

# RUN sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -yq octave