What happened?

Used a multi-arch Beam SDK Python 3.11 container to run a Dataflow pipeline on ARM and the container failed to start due to the error OSError: Could not find lib geos_c or load any of its variants ['libgeos_c.so.1', 'libgeos_c.so'].

Reproduce steps:

1. Create an ARM VM with docker installed;
2. Pull and run the multi-arch Beam SDK Python 3.11 container: docker run -it --entrypoint=/bin/bash gcr.io/dataflow-build/siyuez/mock-release/beam_python3.11_sdk:release-test;
3. Use the python interpreter, run: python;
4. then run: from apache_beam.io.gcp import bigquery_schema_tools.
   The error will appear: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/shapely/geos.py", line 54, in load_dll raise OSError( OSError: Could not find lib geos_c or load any of its variants ['libgeos_c.so.1', 'libgeos_c.so'].

On the VM, the error can be fixed by installing the libgeos-dev package: run apt update and thenapt install libgeos-dev. The package takes 4327 kB. We should install it in the Dockerfile for Python 3.11 when the target architecture is ARM.

Issue Priority

Priority: 2 (default / most bugs should be filed as P2)

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