# Ray Docker Versioning Clarification: I want ray, torchvision, gpu + python \>3.9

**URL:** <https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-docker-versioning-clarification-i-want-ray-torchvision-gpu-python-3-9/9602>\
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**Created:** [March 2, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-docker-versioning-clarification-i-want-ray-torchvision-gpu-python-3-9/9602 "2023-03-02T17:47:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![dagutman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/dagutman/32/3852_2.png) [@dagutman](https://discuss.ray.io/u/dagutman)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-docker-versioning-clarification-i-want-ray-torchvision-gpu-python-3-9/9602/1 "2023-03-02T17:47:37Z")

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I am hoping I am missing something obvious, but I was using the ray:latest-gpu image, and it seems to still be built against python 3.7. I was running into some issues, so I am trying to update by Dockerfile and use a different tag.

At the end of the day, I want to have a stable image with ray, pytorch (including torchvision), and GPU support and python 3.9. I want to avoid playing pip whack-a-mole to get what I hope is a pretty common set of packages installed happily together. I had also tried ray and ray-ml as the base package for latest-py39-gpu; it seemed like the transformers version in that configuration also needed to be upgraded, so I am hoping I can get some pointers before I spend any more time on this.

Dockerfile contents..

FROM rayproject/ray:latest-py39-gpu

## Need to update package cache, default ray image has it blank

RUN sudo apt-get update  
RUN sudo apt-get install nano  
RUN pip install --upgrade transformers[torch] torchvision evaluate datasets nano

I realize the DEPRECATION notice is not the end of the world, but I am a bit confused as to why the “latest” version is built using a now deprecated nvidia base container running a now deprecated version of CUDA.

I was/am having some very annoying issues with protobuf incompatibilities, and even some issues importing transformers which seemed to be throwing some errors. I patched them on 3.7, but I was hoping to simply upgrade to a different base image for my local dockerfile, and am still running into some confusing / unclear behavior.

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**Author:** ![justinvyu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/justinvyu/32/4309_2.png) [@justinvyu](https://discuss.ray.io/u/justinvyu)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/ray-docker-versioning-clarification-i-want-ray-torchvision-gpu-python-3-9/9602/2 "2023-03-08T08:12:54Z")

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Hi @dagutman,

I was able to run this install command without any problems. Could you provide the exact repro steps? I used `rayproject/ray:latest-py39-cu118`.

Also, I agree that we should update our “default” versions to more updated ones (CUDA, python).