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+FROM ghcr.io/ecoextreml/stemmus_scope:1.5.0
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source = "https://github.com/EcoExtreML/STEMMUS_SCOPE_Processing"
+
+# Requirements for building Python 3.10
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade
+RUN apt-get install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev \
+    libnss3-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev libsqlite3-dev wget libbz2-dev
+
+# Get Python source and compile
+WORKDIR /python
+RUN wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.12/Python-3.10.12.tgz --no-check-certificate
+RUN tar -xf Python-3.10.*.tgz
+WORKDIR /python/Python-3.10.12
+RUN ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-optimizations --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib"
+RUN make -j $(nproc)
+RUN make altinstall
+WORKDIR /
+
+# Pip install PyStemmusScope and dependencies
+COPY . /opt/PyStemmusScope
+RUN pip3.10 install /opt/PyStemmusScope/[docker]
+RUN pip3.10 install grpc4bmi==0.5.0
+
+# Set the STEMMUS_SCOPE environmental variable, so the BMI can find the executable
+WORKDIR /
+ENV STEMMUS_SCOPE ./STEMMUS_SCOPE
+
+# Start grpc4bmi server
+CMD run-bmi-server --name "PyStemmusScope.bmi.StemmusScopeBmi" --port 55555 --debug