Questions tagged [alpine-linux]
Alpine Linux is a distribution for small, secure systems, based on busybox and musl
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logrotate with only size option does not rotate. This is inside Alpine docker container
I have below configuration for access logs
cat /etc/logrotate.d/logrotate_nginx.conf
/nginx/access/logs/*.log {
rotate 2
size 1k
missingok
compress
notifempty
copytruncate
}
There is no ...
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does “Ignoring APKINDEX” mean the image does not install apk search command tool?
I am trying to use this docker image big-data-europe/docker-spark, based on "Alpine Linux v3.8"
when I try to search sbt
apk search sbt
I got
WARNING: Ignoring APKINDEX.adfa7ceb.tar.gz: No such ...
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wget content-disposition ubuntu vs alpine
In Ubuntu, I can use the following wget flag to get a debian, i.e.,
wget --content-disposition https://packagecloud.io/xxxxx/download.deb
dpkg -i ...
In Alpine, wget complains that --content-...
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How to prevent apk from overriding config files
So I've stumbled upon issue after issue every time I upgrade using apk upgrade that apk keeps on adding default config files without my consent, is there any way to have apk either never override/...
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Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50c03) with this library (version 0x50c00)
I use alpine-php fpm docker container for developing and deploying a php application. I want to use wkhtmltopdf for generating pdfs. I installed by using apk add wkhtmltopdf But when I run it I ...
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/bin/sh: /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf: not found
I installed /bin/sh: wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/ directory. However when I try to run the program by entering /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf to shell I receive an error /bin/sh: /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf: not found. It ...
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Alpine 3.9.4 update busybox 1.30.0
I am using latest stable version of alpine 3.9.4 image. this image comes with busybox -1.29.3-r10. I need to upgrade to busybox 1.30.0.
apk upgrade busybox command not upgrading the package. What is ...
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Set DM on OpenRC
How do I set a display manager on an OpenRC system? I'm trying to use the Ly display manager.
E.g. on a systemd distro I'd do
$ sudo systemctl enable ly.service
but how do I do it here?
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Installation of Firefox on Alpine Linux
I'm trying to install Firefox on Alpine Linux. I ran
$ sudo apk add firefox
And a few hundred MBs later, it installed.
However, when I ran firefox, it crashed with symbol not found errors and ...
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SSH control socket not working inside alpine-linux container on OSX
If I run the following on the Linux or Mac OSX host, I have no problem:
# ssh -i id_rsa -MS ./ctrl -fTN -p22 -l root example.com
# ssh -S ./ctrl -O check example.com
Master running (pid=23384)
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Alpine linux, latest and greatest version of grep
I'm looking to install a version of grep in an Alpine Docker container thats a similar version to my host OS, v3.3. In hunting around online, I see the package is available for Alpine. However, on ...
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Install Alpine security updates only
Is there a way to install only security updates for Alpine Linux and its apk packages, skipping updates that don't fix security holes?
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Can I build openssh-portable source code in Alpine linux
For my projects I have to customize the openssh code and I am planning to build the openssh-portable(https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable) source code in the Alpine linux. But I am getting the ...
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Why mount doesn't show full list of mounted files as appears in /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts [duplicate]
I created an alpine container with limited user.
When I run mount it shows me the following mounted list:
/home $ mount
overlay on / type overlay (rw,relatime,lowerdir=/var/lib/docker/overlay2/l/...
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How to show details of error in Alpine apk
I use Alpine Linux 3.9.3 x86_64
when I issue:
# apk upgrade
the output is:
3 errors; 1973 MiB in 519 packages
How can I get details about those 3 errors? I tried --verbose flag but result is same....
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How to install TeXLive on Alpine Linux?
Is it possible to install texlive with tlmgr utility (from tug.org)? same question for installing texmaker (or texstudio) latex editors from sources (rather than AppImage, flatpack or snap packages). ...
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How to make a fully bootable ISO from Alpine Linux Edge?
I would like to make an alpine installation iso which has the following attributes:
During installation it has an answerfile so that the setup process (the setup script) takes those default inputs ...
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Alpine Linux Hangs During Boot at: “ successfully initialized wpa_supplicant”
I installed Alpine Linux on Intel Compute Stick with 32 Bit Atom Processor.
After installation I followed the procedure laid out here for connecting to internet via wlan0 port: Connecting to a ...
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Alpine Linux apk add gives permission error
I'm trying to install packages in a docker image based on alpine. The host system is CentOS system, system-release: CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core).
Here's what I do:
# docker run -td alpine:3....
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alpine linux sys mode install on raspberry pi
I'm working with the armhf release of alpinelinux from https://www.alpinelinux.org/downloads/ on a raspberry pi 3b. I've installed a desktop extension card from https://www.newark.com/element14/pi-...
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Can't install openjdk8-jre in Docker Alpine Linux image
Alpine 3.7 and 3.9. apk add htop works fine. apk add openjdk8-jre hangs forever. Problem step:
(25/36) Installing openjdk8-jre-lib (8.201.08-r0)
usr/ (dir)
usr/lib/ (dir)
usr/lib/jvm/ (dir)
usr/lib/...
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find: './proc/1/map_files': Permission denied
I am inside a docker container build atop of the image alpine:3.6 and I am trying to find if a directory exists. I get te error,
find: './proc/1/map_files': Permission denied
This is the commands I ...
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Alpine Linux--Wifi Not Working
I am running Alpine Linux from a custom ISO that I created using the extended profile as a base (following instructions Install packages into a custom Alpine Linux ISO? and https://wiki.alpinelinux....
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Alpine: persistent disk mounted to /media/sda even though fstab has /media/usb
I'm having some issues with Alpine Linux, running in "diskless" mode on ESXi. I have configured it following the instructions in the wiki.
Here's the content of the fstab file:
/dev/cdrom /media/...
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Tagging inteface traffic to VLAN in Linux based virtual router
I have alpine linux running on virutalbox which works as gateway for my other virtual instances resides on the virtualbox. technically alpine running as virtual router with ip forwarding and ...
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How to know the Bluetooth MAC address in Alpine Linux
I am deploying a docker in Raspberry Pi 3. Inside docker I need to know the MAC of Bluetooth device. Normally I would find that using
hciconfig | grep "BD Address" | awk '{ print $3}'
hciconfig ...
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Alpine Linux - can't build libtorrent, missing linux/netlink.h
I'm trying to compile libtorrent on Alpine Linux.
autogen and configure work fine but after invoking make it fails with the following message:
local_addr.cc:45:10: fatal error: linux/netlink.h: No ...
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Alpine version-sort
How to do sort -V in alpine linux?
sort: unrecognized option: V
BusyBox v1.28.4 (2018-12-06 15:13:21 UTC) multi-call binary.
Usage: sort [-nrugMcszbdfiokt] [-o FILE] [-k start[.offset][opts][,end[....
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How to get the source code used to build the packages of the base alpine linux docker image?
Why I want to know this:
Currently I use apt-get source to get the source code for all packages within my Debian based docker images to comply with the GPL when I distribute the docker images.
Now ...
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How to install AppArmor on alpine
I have a container with alpine image (docker:dind) and I want to install ApparMor inside it to see how it works before I put it on the host.
I found ApparMor package in alpine repostiroy but I don'...
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Alpine/OpenRC networking fails to start (boot toofast?)
I am using alpine, my primary distro for servers is Arch with NetworkManager or the built-in "netctl".
I installed Alpine onto a server. It boots up OK, but the networking never comes up on its own. ...
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Error installing Gearman on Alpine Linux
I've tried to install Gearman from source on Alpine, but it's gives an error:
configure: error: Please install libgearman
I tried to apk search libgearman, with no result, but in Ubuntu there is ...
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How to persist iproute2 routes and rules in Alpine Linux?
I'm trying to persist (between reboots) routes and rules from iproute2 in Alpine Linux, so far without success.
Here are the commands:
ip route add default via 192.168.200.1 dev eth1 table net2
ip ...
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Search for Emacs when using Alpine Linux
I am trying to test some software on Alpine Linux. I need to make some configuration changes so I need Emacs. emacs is the name of the package per Alpine Linux | Emacs. apk add emacs is failing due to ...
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How to set system wide umask in alpine?
This question may be same as https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10220531/how-to-set-system-wide-umask. But That is for debian based. I followed the instructions but I couldn't find any file named as /...
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How do you run wine in Alpine Linux?
I installed the wine package but it didn't work:
apk update && apk add wine && wine
/bin/sh: wine: not found
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Why my newly created user is not inheriting $PATH variable
I added a new user dev on my Alpine based image. After switching to the new user I see env variables are different in case of both root and dev user. Specially $PATH variable is different. But I think ...
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Alpine Linux - Ignoring APKINDEX : Bad file Descriptor
when I do apk update or apk add ..., gives me error below:
fetch http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.8/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.8/main: Bad file ...
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apk tool gives permission denied
I get this error message running alpine linux in a docker container hosted by Ubuntu 18.04 in Vagrant with its host in turn being Windows 10 behind a proxy. I have set the proxy variables but still ...
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init script for alpine not working
I am trying to write an init script for gitea in alpine. The first code I tried was
#!/sbin/openrc-run
command=/usr/bin/gitea
command_args="web"
pidfile=/var/run/git.pid
name="Gitea Daemon"
...
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Alpine: How to forcibly remove a package even if it would break dependencies?
I'm trying to build a super-minimal Linux with Alpine. I don't need linux-firmware as it installs firmware for everything, using up 300+MB of space. This is a stock installation. However I can't ...
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Alpine VM not saving after rebooting
I did setup-alpine then installed busybox-extras. After I rebooted the VM, it reverted to the initial configurations.
Is it just for Alpine VM, or should I save it? I can't find any commands to save ...
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Porting openVPN config to Alpine Linux
I got an openVPN config file from my vpn provider. It worked great on Ubuntu, but on alpine, I got an error.
The following lines fail:
up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
down /etc/openvpn/update-...
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Creating a service in Alpine Linux to run Java application
I would like to deploy a spring boot application into a docker container. I had created the base image using Alpine Linux. My old configuration runs a service on Red Hat under this path /etc/systemd/...
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lldb hangs on Alpine Linux
I'm trying to run lldb on Alpine Linux V3.8, but when trying to debug any program, it hangs.
I'm using lldb 5.0.1-r0 from the edge/testing repository, which is the only version available currently in ...
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Can't login to Alpine Linux due to a faulty keymap configuration
I have a fresh Alpine Linux 3.8.0 installed on a local disk, dual booted with Ubuntu 18.04.
While trying to solve some GUI localization issue, I've entered a wrong keymap in setup-keymap. Sadly, ...
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Disable commands in Alpine Linux
I want to attempt to increase the security of some Alpine Linux Docker containers which run Nginx and other servers.
I would like to disable commands like ls, cat, ed or sed, so that they are ...
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Alpine 3.8.0: Installing app, getting error: “Cannot generate ORC metadata for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y”
I'm trying to install VirtualBox (the host, not the client) on a clean install of Alpine 3.8.0 Standard. I'm using VirtualBox-5.2.12-122591-Linux_amd64.run, downloaded from http://www.oracle.com/...
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Is it possible to alternate between from addresses on alpine?
I added a few from addresses in Customized headers in Alpine's configuration, that allows me to edit the From field when composing email.
Now I'm just writing them myself and I wonder whether there ...
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How to use Chinese/English keyboard in Alpine Linux
I recently replaced the US keyboard on my Thinkpad X200, with one that is a mixed English / Chinese keyboard (An example image of it can be seen here). Currently it is functioning as an impeccable ...
