New to Alpine, lots of questions

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#1 Sun, 2014-01-12 04:22
0xicl33n
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Well, im a newbie to alpine, just playing around with it at this point. Im coming from ubuntu.

First of all, i want to say how much i already like this lightweight and extremely fast little OS, its running in virtualbox just fine at the moment.

1. Guest additions - is that ever gonna happen? Clicking on mount guest cd in virtualbox does nothing.

2. Metasploit? Im trying to get metasploit working in alpine 2.7. I have a basic tutorial on how to do it with ubuntu, it really just depends on

build-essential libreadline-dev  libssl-dev libpq5 libpq-dev libreadline5 libsqlite3-dev libpcap-dev subversion openjdk-7-jre git-core autoconf postgresql pgadmin3 curl zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev vncviewer libyaml-dev ruby1.9.3

Most of these have a counterpart in Alpine that i was able to find and install without much problem

However i got to the part where i install the required rubygems..

sudo gem install wirble pg sqlite3 msgpack activerecord redcarpet rspec simplecov yard bundler pcaprub

None of them will install correctly, i had to do some magic to get rdoc installed because the default "ruby apk" didnt come with it, i was able to compile some of the gems until i was told i should install the proper headers for ruby, so i installed the ruby-dev package..and now no other gems will compile anymore. Even the ones i already compiled before installing the headers.

Im going to TRY running metasploit when its done cloning from GIT, i dont know if itll work, fingers crossed!

3. The shell

I do not want to use ASH when i boot my pc every single time, ive tried to change it to bash by going

export SHELL='/bin/bash'
 
set SHELL=/bin/bash'
 
SHELL='bin/bash'
 
export SHELL

NOTHING has worked to change the shell, however my desktop enviornment works nicely (xfce) except there are no icons in it..which is kind of weird..where did they go?

Mon, 2014-01-13 14:57
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Hi,

these answers are from barthalion. Thank him for the help ;-)

1.) guest additions: clicking "mount guest cd" makes it available though /dev/sr0
2.) metasploit: please report the issue on our bugtracker (bugs.alpinelinux.org)
3.) the users shell can be set with chsh or editing /etc/passwd by hand

Thank you.

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