How to Install SQL Server on Debian

This is a known issue: mapping volumes on Macs isn't supported yet. You can follow that Github issue for more news, like when it's fixed.

Until then, no, people aren't doing anything more than simple testing with that combination of tools (Mac, Docker, Linux, SQL Server).

If you need to do real, productive development on a platform that's supported today, use:

• The current supported version of SQL Server (2016, as of this writing)
• Running on a currently supported OS (Windows, as of this writing)
• If you insist on using a Mac as your hardware layer (as I do too), then the easiest way to bridge these technologies is a hypervisor like VMware Fusion or Parallels

I was istalling it on a docker container based on the debian:buster image,and i had the following error:

root@25d7455d0dfc:/# /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf setup
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/mssql/bin/../lib/mssql-conf/mssql-conf.py", line 361, in <module>
    main()
  File "/opt/mssql/bin/../lib/mssql-conf/mssql-conf.py", line 357, in main
    processCommands()
  File "/opt/mssql/bin/../lib/mssql-conf/mssql-conf.py", line 262, in processCommands
    COMMAND_TABLE[args.which]()
  File "/opt/mssql/bin/../lib/mssql-conf/mssql-conf.py", line 75, in handleSetup
    mssqlconfhelper.setupSqlServer(eulaAccepted, noprompt=args.noprompt)
  File "/opt/mssql/lib/mssql-conf/mssqlconfhelper.py", line 971, in setupSqlServer
    if not checkInstall():
  File "/opt/mssql/lib/mssql-conf/mssqlconfhelper.py", line 941, in checkInstall
    return runScript(checkInstallScript, True) == 0
  File "/opt/mssql/lib/mssql-conf/mssqlconfhelper.py", line 930, in runScript
    return subprocess.call([sudo, "-EH", pathToScript])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 172, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 394, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1047, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

So visited the python script at line 930: vim +930 /opt/mssql/lib/mssql-conf/mssqlconfhelper.py

And I saw this if condition:

if (runAsRoot):
    if(checkSudo() == False):
        printError(_("Elevated privileges required for this action. Please run in 'sudo' mode."))
        return (errorExitCode)
    return subprocess.call([sudo, "-EH", pathToScript])
else:
    return subprocess.call([pathToScript])

Since I'm running as root and it enters the first condition 'runAsRoot' the script run the following return subprocess.call([sudo, "-EH", pathToScript])

I changed that line to: return subprocess.call([pathToScript])

After that, the setup command worked for me. /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf setup