diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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+#FROM centos:7
+#RUN yum install -y epel-release 
+#RUN yum install -y sqlite-devel
+#RUN yum install -y gcc gcc-c++ meson
+#COPY ci/arrow-centos.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/Apache-Arrow.repo
+#RUN yum install -y parquet-devel
+FROM ubuntu:16.04
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y apt-transport-https curl gnupg lsb-release pkg-config libsqlite3-dev libicu-dev gcc g++ meson
+COPY ci/arrow-ubuntu16.04.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/apache-arrow.list
+RUN curl https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/arrow/KEYS | apt-key add - && apt-get update && apt-get install -y libparquet-dev
+
+#https://apache.bintray.com/arrow/centos/7/x86_64/Packages/parquet-devel-0.14.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm https://apache.bintray.com/arrow/centos/7/x86_64/Packages/parquet-libs-0.14.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm https://apache.bintray.com/arrow/centos/7/x86_64/Packages/arrow-libs-0.14.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm https://apache.bintray.com/arrow/centos/7/x86_64/Packages/arrow-glib-libs-0.14.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm https://apache.bintray.com/arrow/centos/7/x86_64/Packages/arrow-glib-devel-0.14.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm https://apache.bintray.com/arrow/centos/7/x86_64/Packages/arrow-devel-0.14.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm 
+#COPY ci/arrow-centos.repo //yum.repos.d/Apache-Arrow.repo
+#RUN yum install -y epel-release && yum install -y --enablerepo=epel parquet-devel
+WORKDIR /src/
+VOLUME /src
+CMD mkdir builddir && meson builddir && cd builddir && ninja
diff --git a/ci/arrow-centos.repo b/ci/arrow-centos.repo
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+[apache-arrow]
+name=Apache Arrow
+baseurl=https://dl.bintray.com/apache/arrow/centos/\$releasever/\$basearch/
+gpgcheck=1
+enabled=1
+gpgkey=https://dl.bintray.com/apache/arrow/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-apache-arrow
diff --git a/ci/arrow-ubuntu16.04.list b/ci/arrow-ubuntu16.04.list
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+deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.bintray.com/apache/arrow/ubuntu/ xenial main                                                                                                                    deb-src https://dl.bintray.com/apache/arrow/ubuntu/ xenial main
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+project('sqlite-parquet-vtable', 'c', 'cpp', default_options:['c_std=c11', 'cpp_std=c++11'])
+parquet = dependency('parquet')
+sqlite = dependency('sqlite3')
+icu = dependency('icu-i18n')
+shared_library('sqlite-parquet-vtable', 
+	dependencies:[parquet, sqlite, icu],
+	sources: ['src/parquet.cc', 'src/parquet_cursor.cc', 'src/parquet_filter.cc', 'src/parquet_table.cc']
+)