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+FROM mambaorg/micromamba
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source=https://github.com/metagenlab/zAMP
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.description="Snakemake pipeline for convenient amplicon metagenomics anlysis"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.licenses=MIT
+ENV LANG=C.UTF-8 
+ENV SHELL=/bin/bash
+
+USER root
+ENV APT_PKGS="procps ca-certificates"
+RUN apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ${APT_PKGS} \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/cache /var/lib/log
+USER $MAMBA_USER
+
+COPY --chown=$MAMBA_USER:$MAMBA_USER . /pkg
+RUN micromamba config set extract_threads 1 && \
+    micromamba install -n base -y -f /pkg/env.yaml && \
+    micromamba clean -afy 
+ARG MAMBA_DOCKERFILE_ACTIVATE=1
+RUN pip install /pkg --no-deps --no-build-isolation --no-cache-dir -vvv
+ENV PATH="/opt/conda/bin:$PATH" XDG_CACHE_HOME=/tmp