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Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

Alpine Linux is an independent, non-commercial, general purpose Linux distribution designed for power users who appreciate security, simplicity and resource efficiency.

https://alpinelinux.org/

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How to install a specific package version in Alpine?

I have a Dockerfile to build a Docker image that is based on Alpine Linux. Now I need to install a package as part of this Dockerfile. Currently I have: RUN apk update && \ apk upgrade && \ apk add git Apparently this is a bad idea, as the…
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How to install npm in alpine linux

So I can't get to install npm in alpine linux. I thought perhaps I can just do a apk add npm but apparently apk search npm returns nothing, even after a apk update. I'm experimenting with all this from the nginx:alpine docker image, i.e. docker run…
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Why is the Alpine Docker image over 50% slower than the Ubuntu image?

I noticed that my Python application is much slower when running it on python:2-alpine3.6 than running it without Docker on Ubuntu. I came up with two small benchmark commands and there's a huge difference visible between the two operating systems,…
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How do I check version of alpine mail client?

How do I check on a Unix server what version of the Alpine mail client is installed? I have root access in case that is needed.
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usermod equivalent for Alpine Linux

I'm building a Docker container, and I need to add my user to a group. usermod is not available in Alpine Linux by default. Apparently, you can add shadow from apk to install usermod, but I would prefer to not install additional packages. Is there…
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No such file when it exists

How is this possible? bash: /usr/local/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs: No such file or directory bash-4.3# cd /usr/local/phantomjs/bin bash-4.3# ls phantomjs bash-4.3# The content of /usr/local/phantomjs/bin is the phantomjs file but when I try to execute…
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Install whereis command on alpine linux

I'm trying to install the whereis command on alpine linux 3.5 Actually I'm running the following command: apk add --update whereis But it is not working since I get this error: fetch…
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Print list of installed Alpine packages with version in an easily parse-able format

I am trying to get a list of installed packages with version in an easily processable format for an automated tool to parse. I can get this output: / # apk list -i WARNING: Ignoring APKINDEX.00740ba1.tar.gz: No such file or directory WARNING:…
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can't run nginx in alpine linux (docker)

Well I have set up an alpine linux docker container with nginx on it (apk add nginx) Now I am trying to run nginx. With the simple command nginx This returns the following error: nginx: [emerg] open() "/run/nginx/nginx.pid" failed (2: No such file…
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Is there a way to download individual .apk packages from Alpine repos?

I need to install a couple of packages on a device that does not have internet access. The idea was to download packages, transfer them to the device and then install using apk add --allow-untrusted . Perhaps it was too logical because I…
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What are the differences between Termux, PRoot, Userland, Linux Deploy, AnLinux and Alpine?

What are the differences between Userland, Linux Deploy, AnLinux and Alpine ? What I think I know so far: I think all of them use proot and termux to make Linux distributions run on Android. And Alpine is a small and efficient Linux distribution.…
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What is the best way to install latest nodejs with npm on alpine linux

I am trying to build my own docker container based on alpine linux and I need to add multiple services in that container (yes it is not recommended as best practice but at the moment my org devops is bit behind the curve and demanding a single…
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How to add a path to PATH variable in linux alpine for the entire machine?

I know I can export PATH="$PATH:my_path" to add to PATH variable in current session. I also know that I can add this line to ~/.bash_profile to make it persist across sessions for my user: echo 'PATH="$PATH:my_path"' >> ~/.bash_profile I also know…
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Why does Alpine apk report "unsatisfiable constraints" when installing an older version of Node.js?

I'm trying to install an older version of Node.js (4.4.4) on Alpine. Here are my commands: apk update apk add nodejs-lts=4.4.4-r0 When I execute, I get an error (running as root because I'm using the Alpine:3.4 Docker image): / # apk update fetch…
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What is "modloop" option in Alpine?

I'm trying to understand what is the difference of making Alpine installation medium as read-only type (LiveCD) and as a standard disk mode (where the OS state can be saved). I've seen the modloop option when the author of this article…
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