diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
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+version: '3.7'
+
+services:
+  seedsigner-dev:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: docker/Dockerfile
+    command: sh -c 'bash -c "docker/setup.sh"'
+    volumes:
+      - ../seedsigner:/seedsigner
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diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
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+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
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+FROM python:3.10-bullseye
+
+# install zbar dependencyy
+RUN apt-get -qq update
+RUN apt-get -y -qq install zbar-tools
+
+# temp copy requirements files to local repo to do pip3 install
+COPY ../requirements.txt /requirements.txt
+COPY ../tests/requirements.txt /tests-requirements.txt
+
+WORKDIR /
+RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt
+RUN pip3 install -r tests-requirements.txt
+
+# clean up copied files
+RUN rm /requirements.txt
+RUN rm /tests-requirements.txt
+
+# set working dir
+WORKDIR /seedsigner
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diff --git a/docker/setup.sh b/docker/setup.sh
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+++ b/docker/setup.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+pip3 install -e .
+tail -f /dev/null
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diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e84ff00c..65c471ef 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 embit==0.7.0
 numpy==1.25.2
 Pillow==9.4.0
--e git+https://github.com/seedsigner/pyzbar.git@c3c237821c6a20b17953efe59b90df0b514a1c03#egg=pyzbar
+pyzbar @ git+https://github.com/seedsigner/pyzbar.git@c3c237821c6a20b17953efe59b90df0b514a1c03
 qrcode==7.3.1
 six==1.16.0
 urtypes @ git+https://github.com/selfcustody/urtypes.git@7fb280eab3b3563dfc57d2733b0bf5cbc0a96a6a