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If you would like all the documentation packages pertaining to your installed packages to be pulled in automatically, you may install the <code>docs</code> meta package. | If you would like all the documentation packages pertaining to your installed packages to be pulled in automatically, you may install the <code>docs</code> meta package. | ||
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Revision as of 14:23, 19 May 2021
Man pages
A "man" command and basic manual pages can be installed with:
apk add mandoc man-pages
The appropos command may be installed with:
apk add mandoc-apropos
The man-pages package only provides the system's core manual pages. Other packages come with their separate *-doc sub-packages that ship their documentation (which may include man pages). This is the Alpine Way to allow for the small default footprint. For example:
$ apk add curl $ man curl man: No entry for curl in the manual. $ apropos curl | wc -l 0 After adding curl, there are no man pages $ apk add curl-doc (1/1) Installing curl-doc (7.52.1-r2) Executing mandoc-apropos-1.13.3-r6.trigger OK: 60 MiB in 31 packages $ apropos curl | wc -l 366 Now, with curl-doc installed, there's a boatload of pages!
If you would like all the documentation packages pertaining to your installed packages to be pulled in automatically, you may install the docs
meta package.
apk add docs
Operational hints
Shell @ commandline
Alpine comes with busybox by default. Busybox is an endpoint for numerous symlinks for various utilities. Though busybox is not that bad, the commands are impaired in functionality.
- Funny characters at the console
Edit the file at /etc/rc.conf and change line 92 to:
unicode="YES"
- Bash
It is easy enough to have bash installed, but this does not mean the symlinks to busybox are gone.
Install bash with:
apk add bash bash-doc bash-completion
- Shell utilities (things like grep, awk, ls are all busybox symlinks)
apk add util-linux pciutils usbutils coreutils binutils findutils grep
- /etc/{shadow,group} manipulation requires
apk add shadow
Disk Management
Disk management is so much easier with udisks or udisks2
Installation
apk add udisks2 udisks2-doc
See the mounted disks
udisksctl status
Compiling : a few notes and a reminder
Compiling in Alpine may be more challenging because it uses musl-libc instead of glibc. Please review 'The functional differences with glibc' if you think of porting packages or just for the sake of knowing, of course.
Alpine offers the regular compiler stuff like gcc and cmake ... possible others
(unvalidated) apk packages to install so one can start building software
apk add build-base gcc abuild binutils binutils-doc gcc-doc
a complete install for cmake looks like
apk add cmake cmake-doc extra-cmake-modules extra-cmake-modules-doc
ccache is also available
apk add ccache ccache-doc