Downloads
Stable Releases
Even numbered releases (eg, 1.6.x) are believed to be stable and ready for use in production environments. Minor number increments in stable releases (for example, from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3) will be bug fixes and security updates only.
Alpine 1.6
| Master mirror (FTP) | ISO | USB |
| Master mirror (HTTP) | ISO | USB |
| USA mirror (HTTP) | ISO | USB |
Development Releases
Odd numbered releases (eg, 1.7.x) are development releases. They should be used for testing, learning, and development only. Minor number increments in development versions (eg, 1.7.0 to 1.7.1) may break things, be warned.
Alpine 1.7
| Master mirror (FTP) | ISO | USB |
| Master mirror (HTTP) | ISO | USB |
Old Releases
Old releases can be found on the main ftp or http mirror.
Sources
The sources of alpine are stored in subversion. To check out the tree use one of the following commands:
For annonymous access you can use:
svn co svn://svn.alpinelinux.org/alpine-builder/trunk
Which will checkout the alpine-builder directory in the current directory.
Requirements
To be able to actually build packages you need apk-tools, either located [here] or a debian-package (ubuntu-package, but it is all just shell-script) [here].