Questions tagged [alpine-linux]
Alpine Linux is a distribution for small, secure systems, based on busybox and musl
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How to install Alpine Linux on disk on a VPS?
I successfully mounted an ISO image of Alpine Linux on my Hetzner VPS. I conveniently run setup-interface to get internet access, and setup-sshd to configure my ssh access. All running smoothly !
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Installing Java 6 on Alpine
I need to install Java 6 (preferably OpenJDK vs Oracle) in Alpine docker (latest) and I can't find an Alpine repository containing it. Any ideas?
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Alpine Linux apk continues to install despite pre-install failure
The documentation for the Alpine package says the following of the pre-install script:
Note the exit 0 at the end. If the script exits with failure (if the user already exist), the package will not ...
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Alpine Linux: See errors from apk add/del
apk add/del is reporting errors after any operation. It's always 2 errors. For example (coreutils is already installed):
$ sudo apk add -vv coreutils
After this operation, 0 KiB of additional disk ...
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Automatic yes to prompts when installing package on Alpine Linux
I'd like to know if apk add is capable of automatically assuming yes to any prompts when installing a new package on Alpine Linux?
I'm familiar with running something like apt-get install -y curl on ...
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Alpine package for specific processor
I have an embedded project where I use an alpine based docker image to build binaries for micro controllers. These micro controllers have different architectures as well as processors. E.g. armhf ...
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Packages installation and files not saved on Alpine VM after reboot
I want to create some Alpine VMs in VirtualBox.
To do so, I first downloaded both the Standard and the Virtual versions (see https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/), and then I created two vdi from their ...
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Trouble creating Alpine package
I'm trying to create an .apk file. I read a number of tutorials about it, and tried to follow them as best as I could, I have APKBUILD file, I have the sample-version.tar.gz, have the checksum. But ...
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Using BLAS in Alpine Linux
I am running Alpine Linux inside Termux using proot.
I installed gcc, libc-dev and openblas, and tried to compile a C program requiring cblas.h.
But it gives the following error.
/usr/lib/gcc/armv6-...
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How do I make my computer ask before shutting down instantly?
I've just installed Alpine Linux with XFCE and I really like it, though one thing makes it nearly unusable for me. That's the fact that when I press the power button it immediately shuts off with no ...
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WMIC query construction differences in Linux
This wmic query (NODE, USER, PASS all desensitised)...
wmic /NODE:10.00.00.1 /LOCALE:MS_409 /PRIVILEGES:ENABLE /TRACE:OFF /INTERACTIVE:OFF /FAILFAST:OFF /USER:domain\my_user /PASSWORD:myPass! /OUTPUT:...
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Why are files missing in the first Docker exec but available in the second?
This is a very weird situation. We run an alpine-based docker container on Travis CI. Then we run ls as follows:
docker exec $CONTAINER_NAME ls -la specific/directory
docker exec $CONTAINER_NAME ls -...
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~ in $PATH variable ignores root folder
I'm using Alpine Linux in a container. I have ENV PATH="~/.local/bin:$PATH" \ in my Dockerfile
When logging into the shell I can successfully ls ~/.local/bin which is the same as ls /root/.local/bin, ...
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Identifying native package architecture post installation
I'm working on a project trying to identify components installed on a linux distribution (for instance Alpine) using built in package managers.
bash-5.0# apk list
usl-1.1.22-r3 x86_64 {musl} (MIT) ...
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How to list all the dependencies inside an apk virtual package name?
deps added to a virtual package:
apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps gcc make libc-dev
How can I list them?
apk list gives garbage.
apk list .build-deps
WARNING: Ignoring APKINDEX.00740ba1....
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Make Error installing radare2 on alpine linux
I'm running an alpine linux box, and am trying to install radare2. I downloaded the git repo, then ran the install.sh script. It seems to run fine until running into an error:
In file included from ...
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InstantWP Alpine Linux - repository tag for world dependency 'apk-tools@edge' does not exist
I am using InstantWP which installs a virtual server running Alpine Linux. InstantWP is for running a local version of Wordpress. It has MariaDB 10.1 installed, which isn't the latest version of ...
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prepare aarch64 alpine image on x86-64 linux
My goal is to run a simple script on my linux x86-64 to create an pre configured alpine image for aarch64 (rpi3b+).
I managed to do it quite successfully for a raspbian, using system-nspawn and qemu-...
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Compile clang-tidy under Alpine Linux
I'm trying to make a Docker image for a CI pipeline, that needs to contain clang-tidy among other tools. The problem is that I can't find any package containing clang-tidy on the Alpine repos, which ...
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How to find the value of a variable in ash?
I have a giant script that I'm attempting to debug, and in it it has the following construction:
var "-p Some Parameter" || return 1
var "-p Other Parameter" || return 0
I want to know what it ...
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How to create alpine package without git?
If I already have all the files how do I package them up into an .apk file that I can later installed?
Sort of an equivalent of fakeroot dpkg-deb -b package-dir package.deb, or something to achieve ...
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Can’t run docker containers in linux CentOS, how to fix it?
Can’t run docker containers in linux CentOS, how to fix it?
[root@mycentos ~]# docker run alpine
container_linux.go:235: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:258: applying cgroup ...
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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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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 ...
