Eudev

eudev is a device manager that provides a drop-in replacement for systemd udev. It is therefore recommended for full blown desktop environments.

Installation

The easy way to setup eudev is through the setup script. Only advanced users are recommended to do manual installation.

Setup script

Setting up eudev as device manager on desktop systems is recommended in Alpine Linux. Without a fully functional device manager, users will not be able to connect to input devices. The alpine-conf package provides setup-devd script to easily install and setup device managers.

To set up eudev, issue the command:

# setup-devd udev

Manual installation

You need to install eudev itself and the udev services.

# apk add eudev udev-init-scripts

If you already have a device manager installed you need to stop it before you start eudev. Then enable the following services.

# rc-update add udev sysinit # rc-update add udev-trigger sysinit # rc-update add udev-settle sysinit # rc-update add udev-postmount default

If you are not running in a chroot you will also want to start eudev.

# rc-service udev start # rc-service udev-trigger start # rc-service udev-settle start # rc-service udev-postmount start

If you want to use predictable network interface names, install eudev-netifnames.

# apk add eudev-netifnames

Remove

Warning: Disabling eudev without setting up a different device manager may cause unexpected issues. If you install a different device manager with the setup script this step is not needed.

If you are not running in a chroot you need to stop the service first.

# rc-service udev stop # rc-service udev-postmount stop

Then disable the services.

# rc-update delete udev sysinit # rc-update delete udev-trigger sysinit # rc-update delete udev-settle sysinit # rc-update delete udev-postmount default

You might also want to uninstall the packages since they are not used anymore.

# apk del eudev udev-init-scripts

See also

• Device Managers
• Gentoo wiki eudev
• Archwiki udev
• Gamepad