An example to get Ubuntu/python3.8 working with unofficial edgetpu wheel

python38-ubuntu-Dockefile

# MAKE THIS DOCKERFILE

FROM ubuntu:20.04
ENV TZ=US/Central
RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezone

WORKDIR /home
ENV HOME /home
VOLUME /data
EXPOSE 8888
RUN cd ~
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git unzip pkg-config wget usbutils curl apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg2 vim python3 python3-pip

RUN echo "deb https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt coral-edgetpu-stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/coral-edgetpu.list
RUN curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | apt-key add -
RUN apt-get update

RUN apt install -y libedgetpu1-std
RUN git clone https://github.com/google-coral/edgetpu.git

RUN wget https://github.com/google-coral/edgetpu/files/5052663/edgetpu-2.14.1-py3-none-any.zip && unzip edgetpu-2.14.1-py3-none-any.zip && pip3 install edgetpu-2.14.1-py3-none-any.whl

# BUILD
docker build -t "coral-ubuntu20" . 

# RUN DOCKER IMAGE
docker run -it --privileged --device=/dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb coral-ubuntu20 /bin/bash

# RUN AN EXAMPLE
python3 edgetpu/examples/object_detection.py --model edgetpu/test_data/ssd_mobilenet_v1_coco_quant_postprocess_edgetpu.tflite --input edgetpu/test_data/grace_hopper.bmp