View source for Include:Setup your system and account for building packages

The {{Pkg|alpine-sdk}} is a metapackage that pulls in the most essential packages used to build new packages. Also install and configure a way to elevate privileges, such as sudo or doas, and an editor, such as vi, nano, micro.

{{Cmd|# apk add alpine-sdk}}

This would be a good time to [[Setting_up_a_new_user|create a normal user account for you to work in]]. To make life easier later, it's a good idea to add this user to the wheel group; operations that require superuser privileges can now be done with sudo or doas.

The [[Aports_tree|aports tree]] is in git so before we clone it, let's configure git.

{{:Development using git:Configuration}}

Refer [[Development using git]] to grasp basics of Git operations.

== Configure abuild ==
{{:Include:Abuild-configure}}
{{:Include:Abuild-keygen}}