Installing RPM in Alpine | Alpine Linux forums

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#1 Fri, 2018-03-16 07:59

atheequeahmed

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We are using Alpine in current project. RPM command not found in Alpine. We downloaded RPM package from http://rpm.org/

We could not install in alpine, as there is no documentation available for "How to install RPM". Please guide us on installing RPM in Alpine.

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#2 Fri, 2018-03-16 09:07

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The package is available in the edge branch:

https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=rpm&branch=edge

See https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Edge

#3 Fri, 2018-03-16 11:27

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We have downloaded rpm-4.14.1 from https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/s390x/rpm

How do we install this package in Alpine linux.

#4 Fri, 2018-03-16 20:32

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Install from the repositories with # apk add rpm or use the .apk file directly: # apk add rpm*.apk

But I think you're getting really confused here: RPM is not supposed to be used as Alpine Linux's package manager because Alpine has it's own package manager called `apk`.

The wiki can explain things better than me:

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux_package_management