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I tried to upgrade my alpine linux kernel version from linux-lts to linux-stable because support for a device I am installing was added in a newer kernel version. I changed the apk repositories from ...
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I've run into a really weird issue while switching a docker build from a debian base image to an alpine base (FROM python:3.12-slim-bookwork, to FROM python:3.13-alpine). I suddenly get very weird DNS ...
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I'm using Alpine Linux 3.18 and I'm trying to install iotop. # apk add iotop ERROR: unable to select packages: python3-3.11.12-r1: breaks: iotop-0.6-r13[python3~3.12] satisfies: iotop-0.6-...
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I need a script to run daily in an Alpine docker container. I have set it up as follows: copy the script to /etc/periodic/daily start the crond daemon in the container's ENTRYPOINT script: /usr/sbin/...
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I want to provision a VM in proxmox with cloud-init, such that tailscale will be set up and running on first boot. The image I use is alpine 3.22.1 (nocloud_alpine-3.22.1-x86_64-uefi-cloudinit-r0....
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When using Alpine Linux normally, it's easy to install a set of packages and then just transfer the /etc/apk/world file over to another system (followed by apk fix on the other system) to ensure that ...
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Prerequisites Alpine Linux Edge ~ $ podman --version podman version 5.5.2 ~ $ distrobox --version distrobox: 1.8.1.2 ~ $ mount|grep ^cgroup|awk '{print $1}'|uniq cgroup2 I followed the steps in ...
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I have been trying for a long to make the crontab entries to run, but it doesn't matter what Time / schedule I enter, it doesn't seem to work. I have confirmed my current time zone with date command &...
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Does there is any possibility to have this combination? Podman container with: Alpine Linux Wayland xRDP with multiuser support any window compositor I have found there are some limitation of ...
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My host is on alpine Linux and I'm running a jenkins agent on docker. I need the jenkins agent to be able to run a script when it does a build that changes the ownership of a few directories. Every ...
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I'm trying to collect apk packages to local repo to install them later. But apk update says that this repo directory does not exists (what is not true). It does not depend on actual location and is ...
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I have rootless Podman container (system: Alpine Linux) in Podman (master system: Alpine Linux). Container is able to work with xRDP (and sesman) so I am able to connect to it via local user (if ...
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A coworker recently shelled into an Alpine-based container and ran apk add with some special additional syntax such that only a part of a package was installed. More specifically, he wanted only the ...
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I have installed Alpine Linux on my DC ROMA Laptop II successfully and managed since then to get the password to work too. I am piggybacking off of the kernel (and boot stuff) provided by ...
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on a directory containing ~26 million files, GNU Find is 10 times faster than BusyBox find, why? /var/www # time find /var/www -regex .*\.\(php\|js\|json\|html\|htm\|css\) -not -regex \(.*/docroot/...
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I want to run an Alpine Linux VM and want to connect the host's TPM to the VM. The host is x86_64 based. The command for qemu is qemu-system-aarch64 \ -m 1024 -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt \ -bios /...
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I have a very old Samsung SCX-3205 printer/copier/scanner. It scans fine and works fine. HOWEVER, when I print with CUPS, it stops scanning. "scanimage -L" tells for the first run after ...
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I checked the whole conf file but did not find the option equivalent to "deny unknown-clients" of Debian isc-dhcp-server. Possible?
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Is it possible to execute a history command by number with !###, similar to bash/zsh? Alpine's ash shell does not interpret this: $ history 1441 date 1442 history $ !1141 -sh: !1141: not found
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I've installed nextcloud on proxmox in an alpine container using ttecks (rip!) helper script. After some tweaks, I am now able to update nextcloud from the application itself. Now I have the following ...
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I recently asked a question on Reddit about how to install Arch on my DC Roma Laptop II. One of the suggestions was to use Alpine instead because it has support for RISC-V. Looking at the downloads ...
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I installed Alpine Linux with XFCE on an old potato laptop, without any display manager. I've been able to iron out most of the hiccups by searching through various wikis and forums. However I'm ...
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I have a schedule in my personal crontab on an Alpine Linux 3.20 system that runs at 00:10 from Tuesdays to Sundays (i.e., all days of the week except Mondays): 10 0 * * 2-7 "$HOME/local/sbin/...
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I can login on an alpine based docker container by either a non-login or non-login shell, i.e. ash vs ash -l. $ docker run -it --rm alpine /bin/ash / # Now when I use the login shell, I see a weird ...
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System Monitor or Tophat gnome extensions don't work in fresh installation of Alpine linux. I can see error: Requiring GTop, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GTop' (any version) not found I ...
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I ran a container using the alpine image and used timeout to run a command in it. After the timeout command ran, there is a dead process left in alpine, and I cannot kill it using the kill command. My ...
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I am trying to install apine lixun on a server. Use Rufus to create a bootable flash drive with the operating system. When trying to install the operating system I get the following message "...
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Excuse me if this is a dumb question. I've been experimenting with this old nas box i bought, cross compiling anything and everything i could get my hands on. And now i want to take it a step further ...
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I have a Linux Alpine (v3.18.6) container running on AKS. The curl command inside that container is not able to resolve a private DNS host. Also, nslookup throws SERVFAIL. However, when I provide --...
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I have a file.img file which was obtained by running dd if=/dev/sda of=file.img. This was done on a device with two partitions, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. In order to flash a new device with the same ...
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From my local computer, I can ssh into my server without a password by doing: ssh [email protected] I then check /var/log/auth.log on the server to see what ssh key was used. I get something like ...
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Is there any way to update the /etc/motd file on login? The /etc/profile and /etc/profile.d/*.sh scripts are executed after the motd is already displayed on login so these methods don't work. I want ...
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Due to latest vulnerability detected CVE-2023-52425, CVE-2023-52426, I need to upgrade alpine/expat 2.5.0-r2 to expat 2.6.0-r0 in my alpine docker image. I tried various ways (see below) to upgrade ...
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I'm trying to create a Docker container with postgresql16-client but i'm getting an error saying that the package does not exist. I'm going to also install dotnet 8 on this container in order to run ...
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In a Clean Alpine Linux install run apk add openntpd service openntpd start rc-update add openntpd Then modifiy the /etc/ntpd.conf to # $OpenBSD: ntpd.conf,v 1.16 2019/11/06 19:04:12 deraadt Exp $ # #...
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I've been making a bootable, CLI Alpine Linux recovery disk, but Cfdisk can't find any disks to partition, neither does setup-disk, what are the steps I need to take to have a functioning partition ...
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When I try to apk add install, the package can't be found install (no such package): required by: world[install] What utility provides /bin/install?
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I need to use the tail ... --pid=PID option in my docker container that is based on Alpine image in order to I can kill the running background tail process automatically. Unfortunately the BusyBox ...
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My dual-stack network at home uses router advertisements for IPv6 configuration, with a (mostly fixed) delegated /56 prefix from my ISP. All my machines therefore have a predictable global IPv6 ...
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I have two VMs running different host Linux OSs and identical podman-compose.yml files on the two. The podman-compose.yml file has the snippet: fpm: image: chialab/php-dev:8.2-fpm [...] ...
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Say I have a package A, and package B. Package B contains some files which deliberately conflict with package A, and it is desirable for package B's files to be favoured over the ones in package A if ...
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I have a problem with mounting a simple ext4 USB device with sync option and defaults. This is my fstab entry: UUID=233b8055-d596-48a7-a666-1e10b8860d9c /USBSSD sync 0 0 when I use mount -a, it says: ...
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The problem: I have Alpine Linux downloaded on my phone, but it cannot be pinged by other devices on the network. It seems to have its own IP address and gateway that is different from the network. My ...
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I am running several Alpine Linux installations, some VPS via SSH, some on real hardware. One of the machines (via SSH) can only input ASCII characters - e.g., pressing Option + o on my Mac keyboard ...
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I am experimenting with the Python Docker container, which seems to use Alpine Linux. I'm not familiar with Alpine and I don't see it listed as an option for installing software. On Alpine, should I ...
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I want to use Alpine inside of a Distrobox container using the alpine-toolbox-edge image and do various tasks involving the abuild program. I followed the instructions in the "Creating an Alpine ...
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In Alpine Linux, when I run the command apk update it looks at my /etc/apk/repositories file and downloads the APKINDEX.tar.gz file from each repository. It then renames each APKINDEX tar file using a ...
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I'm using Alpine Linux with the following bluetooth related packages installed: bluez-5.68-r1 x86_64 {bluez} (GPL-2.0-or-later AND BSD-2-Clause AND MIT) [installed] bluez-btmgmt-5.68-r1 x86_64 {bluez} ...
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I am trying to set up an alpine linux machine that needs to run an user program at the startup. I did not add any user except for root. After searching for solution of how to enable automatic login i ...
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Probably this is a really naïve question, but I can’t make this work by trying the methods I’ve found in the existing documentation or in other solutions. I have Alpine Linux installed on a Raspberry ...
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