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[[Setup-desktop#Installation_using_setup-desktop|Setup-desktop]] script automatically enables the community repository.
[[Setup-desktop#Installation_using_setup-desktop|Setup-desktop]] script automatically enables the community repository.



Revision as of 07:59, 17 March 2025

Setup-desktop script automatically enables the community repository.

Installation using setup-desktop

The Alpine Linux script for setting up a desktop quickly is setup-desktop.

# setup-desktop

On running the above command, you will be prompted to select a desktop environment.

Which desktop environment? ('gnome', 'plasma', 'xfce', 'mate', 'sway', 'lxqt' or 'none') [none]

Once you have chosen a desktop environment, this script installs the chosen desktop along with necessary packages, firefox browser and adds the necessary services to run on startup. You can reboot when complete and the system will boot into a graphical login screen with the desktop environment. Depending on the desktop chosen, the script also activates the necessary services like dbus, elogind, login manager etc..

To view all the packages that are installed by the script for the chosen desktop you can issue the below command:

# cat /usr/sbin/setup-desktop