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Sat, 2014-10-11 14:33
3290jkol
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does anyone know how to configure alpine so that you can search, download and install packages from AUR?
does anyone know how to install virtualbox on alpine?
does anyone know what program I can use in alpine to open and extract tar.gz files?
"does anyone know how to configure alpine so that you can search, download and install packages from AUR?"
Although Arch Linux and Alpine Linux share the same xBSD style portage mechanics, the are not fully compatible. One reason that springs to mind is that ports are compiled with the glibc libraries in Arch and musl libraries in Alpine, meaning that tweaks are often needed to Alpine aports builds to get software to compile against musl.
You can certainly look at an Arch Linux PKGBUILD file to get an idea of what would be needed to build the Alpine Linux aport.
"does anyone know how to configure alpine so that you can search, download and install packages from AUR?"
Sorry, can't help you there without more detail. What's not happening?
"does anyone know what program I can use in alpine to open and extract tar.gz files?"
tar and gunzip are provided by busybox in "cut down" versions. You can install the "full" binaries using apk add tar gzip
It is completely reasonable that Arch doesn't port directly to Alpine packages, especially since there are some core different goals out of the distros. However it raises the question.
Should Alpine Linux have an AUR?
I think it would be awesome if Alpine would have an AUR. This is the thing keeping me on Arch - how easy it is for a "normal" user to post a new package.
For example, I am starting to look at setting up Alpine as an extremely light-weight desktop and I have started looking at the tiling Wayland environment "Velox" for this (I could ofcourse go for i3, dwm or Awesome ... but if I can do the wayland switch directly that would be cool). For ease-of-use I am starting to try it out on Arch first because there are already PKGBUILDs posted on AUR.
The only thing that I need to figure out to do a complete switch to Alpine would be how to package and use som containers or use schroot or similar tools for some proprietary crap that I sometimes need (primarily : citrix ICA client).
A wiki page for "how to package an Arch package as a container to use on top of Alpine" could be pretty handy ;)
With an Alpine AUR maybe some missing packages will get available like volumeicon or pavucontrol?