Alpine Linux Handbook

This material is work-in-progress ... Do not follow instructions here until this notice is removed. (Last edited by Dubiousjim on 21 Mar 2012.)

Table of Contents

1 About Alpine Linux

1.1 Why Should I Try It?

1.2 What's It Like?

1.3 What Should I Know?

1.4 How did Alpine Linux Begin?

1.5 Why the Name Alpine?

2 Download Alpine Linux

3 Installing and Upgrading Alpine Linux

3.1 Installation Quick-Start in 3 Easy Steps

3.2 Installing Alpine on USB

3.3 Installing Alpine on Compact Flash

3.4 Installing Alpine on HDD (Overwriting Everything)

3.5 Installing Alpine on HDD (Dual-Booting)

3.6 Upgrading Alpine

3.7 Booting ISO in VMWare

4 Configure Networking

4.1 Setting System Hostname

4.2 Configuring DNS

4.3 Enabling IPv6 (Optional)

4.4 Interface Configuration

4.5 Firewalling with iptables and ip6tables

5.6 Activating Changes and Testing Connectivity

5 Package Management

5.1 Quickstart Guide

5.2 Additional apk Commands

5.3 Local Cache

5.4 Advanced APK Usage

6 Init System

6.1 Quick-Start Information

6.2 Available Runlevels

6.3 rc-update usage

6.4 rc-status usage

7 Local Backup (lbu)

7.1 Saving Your Changes

7.2 Include Special Files/Folders to the apkovl

7.3 Exclude Specific Files/Folders from the apkovl

7.4 Check What Will Be Added to Your apkovl

7.5 Create an apkovl Elsewhere Than on Some Specific Media

7.6 Check What Files Have Been Changed Since Last Commit

7.7 Multiple Backups

8 Further Help and Information

8.1 Tutorials and Howtos

8.2 FAQs

8.3 Support

8.4 How to Contribute

8.5 Developer Documentation

8.6 Miscellaneous