Questions tagged [alpine-linux]
Alpine Linux is a distribution for small, secure systems, based on busybox and musl
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BTRFS quota for a user vs. dedup/compression?
I want the user to be able to use 1 GByte on a BTRFS mountpoint. If he has 1 GByte on its ex.: FAT32 FS and copies that 1 GByte to the BTRFS than that counts as 1 GByte.
But in the background I have ...
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Alpine: How to forceful remove freetype package from OpenJDK Runtime Environment(Alpine 8.302.08-r2) even if it would break dependencies?
I'm trying to setup a docker config for my java spring applicaiton. So appln is running absolutely fine but We found out that there is a apk package called as freetype which is having critical ...
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Alpine Linux: Convert Podman systemd to openrc
I use Alpine Linux and podman command to generate container systemd
Command:
podman generate systemd -n test -f
Output:
# container-test
# autogenerated by Podman 3.4.7
# Fri Apr 29 02:29:47 CEST ...
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paxtest on Alpine Linux
Last paxtest package was at https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/1.9.0_package_changes_since_1.8.3.
I cannot see paxtest package in Alpine Linux packages.
If I download the paxtest tar.gz, it wont ...
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How to downgrade the kernel in Alpine Linux (in Docker)?
I'm looking to test a DirtyPipe PoC and I need a vulnerable kernel version (5.8-5.15) to test on. I'm running an Alpine container in Docker for this purpose however am open to other Linux distros (...
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Creating custom Alpine Linux ISO with an answer file built-in
I couldn't find any guide or documentation referring on how to add files to a custom Alpine Linux ISO, the nearest i could find is this page on the Alpine Wiki about creating a custom ISO image with ...
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Can you configure Alpine's apk to be interactive by default?
I find myself preferring the interactive mode that can be accessed by adding the -i flag when running Alpine's apk over the default non-interactive mode. However, it is rather tedious to constantly ...
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How to install mongo bi connector in alpine linux?
How to install mongo bi connector in alpine linux?
the mongo bi connector is the 'mongosqld',https://www.mongodb.com/docs/bi-connector/current/
there are debian version, windows and macos version but ...
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Copy files up 1 or 2 directories and rename them
I'm quite new to Linux, and I'm currently trying to organize files as they are downloaded.
Essentially I want to take .srt files from a subdirectory and move and rename them to the main directory ...
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Trouble Mounting NFS on Alpine Container (Proxmox)
Trying to mount an NFS share on an Alpine (3.15.3) lxc on Proxmox (7.1-10).
Following the Alpine docs for NFS, I have added nfs-utils, and rc-start nfsmount.
The entry in fstab is
192.168.11.192:/...
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Puppeteer in alpine docker with chromium headless dosent seems to work
I'm trying to use pageres in my bash script for grabbing screenshot in heruko.
But running pageres with alpine:latest throws error with puppeteer.
at onClose (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pageres-cli/...
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SSH server refuses multiple connections from same client
I have a simple openssh server running in a Alpine Linux 3.15 Docker container, and a another container, also running the same version of Alpine of the SSH server) that runs a X server with dwm
I'm ...
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Alpine Linux becomes unreachable after a certain period of inactivity
I have installed Alpine Linux as OS for a mini server.
I have correctly configured the server to be reached via ssh (openSSL) and my programs run on docker containers.
I use a wired connection.
The ...
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How to create a custom Alpine Linux ISO image with custom kernel?
I would like to make a custom Alpine Linux ISO image with a custom kernel based on linux-lts. I know how to make it separately (make kernel with abuild checksum && abuild -rK command; make ISO ...
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What is the equivalent packages build-essential and linux-headers-<xxxx> in alpine?
I want to build kernel modules in Alpine, I know how to do it in Ubuntu.
In Ubuntu I used to install kernel headers by running:
apt install -y build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
What is the ...
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Automate Alpine Linux installation
I am trying to achieve unattended Alpine Linux installation. I went through the Alpine automatic installation guide but many manual interventions are still needed during the installation!
For example ...
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expect freezes after send
I'm trying to automate a Alpine Linux installation using the following script:
expect <<- EOF
set timeout -1
spawn setup-disk -e -m sys /dev/sda
expect {
{WARNING: Erase the ...
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How to create mkfs for LFS? [closed]
I am trying to run following command mkfs -v -t ext4 /dev/sda1 to create file system but I got an output /dev/sda1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!. How can I ...
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how to update repositories in Alpine
I am trying to get the latest version of the "consul" package.
the current available and installed package is version 1.10.6 but the latest is 1.11.1
sudo apk list | grep consul
consul-...
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Tell whether reboot is required after apk upgrade
How do we know whether we need to reboot after apk upgrade? I know that we probably need to reboot after kernel update, but how about system libraries and Busybox (as init)?
For Debian we have several ...
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fix for drag and drop for open-vm-tools on Alpine Linux?
I get the following error when I try to drag and drop a file in Alpine Linux:
Error when getting information for file //tmp/vmwarednd/"random_name"/"file_name"
I installed all ...
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In alpine, why won't an upgradable python package upgrade?
In alpine edge, I have the packaged onboard installed, but it is failing to launch.
$ onboard
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/onboard", line 32, in <module>
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How to download old package on Alpine Linux
Goal: download (not install) old versions of Alpine packages, ultimately for use in a container.
For Debian, there's https://snapshot.debian.org/
I couldn't find anything equivalent for Alpine.
Is ...
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How can I get ng e2e to run under Alpine: it currently returns E/launcher - Error: spawn <location> 5 ENOENT
I'm running npx ng e2e from a docker CI environment under GitLab,. When I run it I get totally mundane setup/installation of chrome/webdriver..
[19:57:28] I/file_manager - creating folder /builds/...
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chrome: Passthrough is not supported, GL is swiftshader
I'm trying to run headless Chrome in a container using Alpine Linux, I'm getting
Passthrough is not supported, GL is swiftshader
The commands to get this are pretty simple,
podman run -ti alpine:3 /...
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pactl package in docker alpine container
I want to pactl in a docker Alpine container. I installed pulseaudio and also tried apk add pactl. How can I install pactl under Docker Alpine container?
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can't SSH from docker container to remote server
on my host server I have my user with generated private and public keys.
I have copied public key value to my remote server authorized_keys file.
I have mapped new docker container instance to use the ...
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Why does 'find' command on Alpine seem to require escaping '?' but not on Ubuntu?
Is this related to a bug, etc. or this is how it should be?
find ./frontend -mindepth 1 -regex '^./dir1/dir2\(/.*\)?' works on Ubuntu but not Alpine (docker)
find ./frontend -mindepth 1 -regex '^./...
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SSH error: Cannot bind any address when using any other user than root in a container with Alpine Linux
I want to be able to start a Docker container as a user other than root and be able to ssh into it. When I start sshd as root I am able to log into it. When I switch it to start the container as ...
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Execute POST request from Alpine container
I want to execute a POST request with custom headers over HTTPS from a pod in our kubernetes cluster, which is running openjdk11-jre with alpine as base image (adoptopenjdk/openjdk11:jre-11.0.11_9-...
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How to make dnsmasq work on Alphine(docker)?
On Debian-based Linux, dnsmasq works by replacing the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf with 127.0.0.1 (referring to "Linux for Wireless Engineers: How to Do DNS Caching with dnsmasq").
But I ...
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EXIT trap is ignored on Ctrl-C when PID == 1
a.sh:
trap 'echo cleanup' EXIT
sleep 3
To reproduce, press Ctrl-C before the script finishes:
$ docker run --rm -itv $PWD:/app -w /app alpine:3.14 sh a.sh
^Ccleanup
$ docker run --rm -itv $PWD:/app -...
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mount command on Alpine Linux doesn't like octal sequence for space in fstab
on alpine Linux, I can't mount automatically a cifs directory which has a space in the name, but manually it may work.
With this /etc/fstab snippet it doesn't work:
//192.168.245.1/My\040Space ...
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how to use rtl8723bs bluetooth in linux 5.10
I have alpine edge (future 3.15) x86 on an HP Stream 7 5709 tablet (tl;dr: Bay Trail, Atom Z3735G), which has an onboard rtl8723bs wifi/bluetooth, which I'm already using for wifi and is working fine.
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Interrupting rsync crashes a container
Consider the following script (/tmp/a.sh). It prepares an environment to run rsync:
#!/bin/sh -eu
docker run --rm -it \
-v /:/host \
alpine sh -c '
apk add rsync shadow procps
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Initramfs fails to mount sysroot for LVM volume
I have a Dell 730xd with a PERC card that has two 32gb RAID1 disks exposed. On the first I setup Alpine Linux using standard partitioning(boot, system, swap) with Grub. This works perfectly fine. I ...
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Alpine Linux: NetworkManager does not enroll wwan0 device
I have a small PC with an included GSM-modem which I need to have working with NetworkManager under Alpine Linux v3.14 x86 (so nmcli and mmcli works, both network and modem manager have been installed)...
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Alpine Linux: Disable switching into framebuffer mode at boot?
We are installing a custom version of Alpine Linux on several embedded elderly PC. The monitor is connected using VGA and may not report the supported resolutions correctly, hence the GPU may choose ...
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mke2fs - answer to an "overwrite" question from a script
I use mke2fs utility to create a file system. If file system already exists, I get a confirmation prompt:
~# mkfs.ext4 /dev/xvdf
mke2fs 1.46.2 (28-Feb-2021)
/dev/xvdf contains a ext4 file system ...
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qt5 program with "-platform linuxfb" does not reset framebuffer when crashing
We have a qt5 program running under Alpine Linux v3.14 which uses a fragile legacy library which may cause the entire program to crash. Alpine Linux switches to framebuffer mode during start up. We ...
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Why is Bash not evaluating the executable bit correctly in Alpine 3.14.2?
In a dockerized Alpine 3.14.2 running Bash 5.1.4(1), I encountered a strange behaviour in a Bash script. The essential line is a test for executability of a file, which always fails. This is the if ...
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Pattern matching in if block in Alpine's `sh`
How do i replicate the following bash expression:
if [[ "$foo" =~ (bar|spam) ]]; then
echo "True"
fi
in Alpine's /bin/sh?
Typing it in as-is throws an error:
/bin/sh: syntax ...
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When running "lbu commit" for Alpine backup, I cannot grab certain sockets. They are being ignored
I am running into an issue when creating a Alpine overlay for my ISO. I get this error saying the sockets are being ignored when I installed ossec locally on my ISO. When I grab the tar file over to ...
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Get the right OPENSSL_ia32cap value for openssl 3.0.0 on old non-Intel/AMD x86 devices?
We are using Alpine Linux x86 for a project where some of the computers the customer needs this to run have old x86 processors. Initial testing with v3.14 showed that we could use Alpine Linux with ...
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Better alternative to alpine rootfs
I am using Alpine linux rootfs for playing with namespaces. But, I am running into a major issue - Bash is no available as part of the minimal root filesystem. "Busybox bash" does not work ...
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Alpine Linux startup script
I have a USB flash drive, which boots Alpine Linux into RAM memory.
I wish to run a script directly after startup (login to WIFI, etc.). Is that possible?
It is advised to place a startup script in /...
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How to SSH on alphine linux with iSH on ipad?
Iam trying out linux on Ipad through the iSH app, however, i cant seem to find my username it always returns 'root' when i do whoami. So now iam confused how I can ssh into another computer or even ...
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Optimize adding extra packages to the USB-media for alpine linux offline install?
We would like to make an automated installer for Alpine Linux for running our own application on an embedded x86 pc. Our application setup requires packages not present on the downloadable media and ...
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Alpine Linux - How to prevent .ash_history from being saved?
How can one prevent .ash_history from being saved at all in Alpine Linux?
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Crosscompile go(lang) app with docker for alpine linux (musl) aarch64 with native libs so CGO enabled
Background
I'm writing an open-source GTK go app subsonic API client which:
targets on first place mobile friendly Linux like postmarketOS (alpine linux), Mobian (debian)
in future will be also ...
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