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== Man pages ==


Not all man-pages are in Alpine, those who are are not readily available after installing man and man-pages,
== Basic commands and shell hints ==
you also need to install mdocml-pages to have man pages built at install time. Below is the quick and easy commandline:


    apk add man man-pages mdocml-pages
Alpine comes with busybox by default. Busybox is set up as an endpoint for numerous symlinks that substitute various utilities. Though busybox is not that bad, the busybox replacement commands may still be missing some functionality.


== Operational hints ==
To replace the symlinks to busybox, install:


==== Shell @ commandline ====
* Shell utilities (things like grep, [[awk]], ls are all busybox symlinks)
 
: {{Cmd|apk add {{pkg|util-linux}} {{pkg|pciutils}} {{pkg|hwdata-pci}} {{pkg|usbutils}} {{pkg|hwdata-usb}} {{pkg|coreutils}} {{pkg|binutils}} {{pkg|findutils}} {{pkg|grep}} {{pkg|iproute2}}}}
Alpine comes with busybox by default, busybox is and endpoint for numerous symlinks for various utilities. Though busybox is not that bad the commands are impaired in functionality.
 
* funny characters at the console
 
  not all characters are presented accurately, document here how to fix this


* Bash
* Bash
It is easy enough to have bash installed but this does not mean the symlinks to busybox are gone
It's also easy enough to install bash itself:    
 
: {{Cmd|apk add {{pkg|bash}} {{pkg|bash-completion}}}}
install bash like    
and optionally, change the login shell with '''{{ic|chsh}}'''.
  apk add bash bash-doc bash-completion
 
 
* shell utils ( things like grep, awk, ls, brctl  ... are all busybox symlinks )
 
  this should document how to have real utils instead of symlinks to busybox


==== Disk Management ====  
== Disk Management ==


Disk management is soo much easier with udisks or udisks2
Managing (removable) disk is much easier with udisks


Installation     
Installation     


  apk add udisks2 udisks2-doc
{{Cmd|apk add {{pkg|udisks2}}}}


See the mounted disks
To see the mounted disks


  udisksctl status
{{Cmd|udisksctl status}}


== Compiling : a few notes and a reminder  ==
== Compiling : a few notes and a reminder  ==


Compiling in Alpine may be more challenging because it uses [http://www.musl-libc.org/ musl-libc] instead of glibc. Please review [http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Functional_differences_from_glibc 'The functional differences with glibc' ] if you think of porting packages or just for the sake of knowing, of course.
Compiling in Alpine may be more challenging because it uses [https://musl.libc.org/ musl-libc] instead of glibc. Please review the [https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc.html 'functional differences with glibc'] if you think of porting packages or just for the sake of knowing, of course.


Alpine offers the regular compiler stuff like gcc and cmake ... possible others
Alpine offers the regular compiler stuff like gcc and cmake ... possible others


==== (unvalidated) apk packages to install so one can start building software ====
==== (unvalidated) apk packages to install so one can start building software ====
  apk add build-base gcc abuild binutils binutils-doc gcc-doc
{{Cmd|apk add {{pkg|build-base}} {{pkg|abuild}}}}


==== a complete install for cmake looks like ====
==== a complete install for cmake looks like ====


  apk add cmake cmake-doc extra-cmake-modules extra-cmake-modules-doc
{{Cmd|apk add {{pkg|cmake}} {{pkg|extra-cmake-modules}}}}


==== ccache is also available ====
==== ccache is also available ====


  apk add ccache ccache-doc
{{Cmd|apk add {{pkg|ccache}}}}
 
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Latest revision as of 13:59, 27 December 2023

Basic commands and shell hints

Alpine comes with busybox by default. Busybox is set up as an endpoint for numerous symlinks that substitute various utilities. Though busybox is not that bad, the busybox replacement commands may still be missing some functionality.

To replace the symlinks to busybox, install:

  • Shell utilities (things like grep, awk, ls are all busybox symlinks)

apk add util-linux pciutils hwdata-pci usbutils hwdata-usb coreutils binutils findutils grep iproute2

  • Bash

It's also easy enough to install bash itself:

apk add bash bash-completion

and optionally, change the login shell with chsh.

Disk Management

Managing (removable) disk is much easier with udisks

Installation

apk add udisks2

To see the mounted disks

udisksctl status

Compiling : a few notes and a reminder

Compiling in Alpine may be more challenging because it uses musl-libc instead of glibc. Please review the 'functional differences with glibc' if you think of porting packages or just for the sake of knowing, of course.

Alpine offers the regular compiler stuff like gcc and cmake ... possible others

(unvalidated) apk packages to install so one can start building software

apk add build-base abuild

a complete install for cmake looks like

apk add cmake extra-cmake-modules

ccache is also available

apk add ccache