# Is the Unofficial Docker Image still valid for face recognition and the noted software version compatibility issues?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-the-unofficial-docker-image-still-valid-for-face-recognition-and-the-noted-software-version-compatibility-issues/88021
**Category:** Core Development
**Tags:** docker
**Created:** [16 May 2024 13:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-the-unofficial-docker-image-still-valid-for-face-recognition-and-the-noted-software-version-compatibility-issues/88021 "2024-05-16T13:43:28Z")
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### Author:  [@\_Kelvin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/_Kelvin)
#### Post date: [16 May 2024 13:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-the-unofficial-docker-image-still-valid-for-face-recognition-and-the-noted-software-version-compatibility-issues/88021/1 "2024-05-16T13:43:28Z")
Hi, new user here so I'm still finding my way around.
I'm wanting to try a little face recognition and found 'node-red-contrib-face-recognition'. Reading the page [here](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-face-recognition) it notes incompatibilities with software versions and the steps needed to overcome this. However I am curious as to whether this is still the case as the details look 3 years old now? I was tempted to just grab the unofficial image and use that but thought I'd post here first to check.
Thanks,
K
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### Author:  [@\_Kelvin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/_Kelvin)
#### Post date: [16 May 2024 15:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-the-unofficial-docker-image-still-valid-for-face-recognition-and-the-noted-software-version-compatibility-issues/88021/2 "2024-05-16T15:05:31Z")
I tried installing the node-red-contrib-face-recognition module in a clean official alpine image and it still errored. I then built a new image from the official as per the documentation and it installed fine so I assume I've answered my own question.
I was expecting that this would have been resolved in the 3 years since but I guess not unless I've misunderstood somethign along the way.
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [17 May 2024 11:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-the-unofficial-docker-image-still-valid-for-face-recognition-and-the-noted-software-version-compatibility-issues/88021/3 "2024-05-17T11:07:01Z")
> [@\_Kelvin](#):
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> node-red-contrib-face-recognition
Welcome to the forum.
I think you would have to ask the node's author about this. The node is not maintained by anyone here as far as I know.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [16 July 2024 11:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/is-the-unofficial-docker-image-still-valid-for-face-recognition-and-the-noted-software-version-compatibility-issues/88021/4 "2024-07-16T11:07:40Z")
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