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{{Tip|Before installing a desktop, you may want to create a non-privileged [[Setting_up_a_new_user#Creating_a_new_user|user account]] for security reasons.}}
== Quickstart Installation ==
== Quickstart Installation ==



Revision as of 13:45, 11 August 2024

Tip: Before installing a desktop, you may want to create a non-privileged user account for security reasons.

Quickstart Installation

The Alpine Linux utility for setting up any desktop quickly is setup-desktop. Most commonly used desktop environements can be quickly installed with this utility, which is part of the standard Alpine Linux installation package alpine-conf.

# setup-desktop

The above utility installs the chosen desktop environment with all the necessary dependencies and standard utilities and commonly used applications along with firefox as browser.