What is this?

Add "Alpine's Package manager"(apk cli) on any Linux Distro.

You can get state-of-arts alpines packages to your linux, with almost zero-cost or effort.

Alpine's packages version is up-to-date, so you can get newer version of packaged binary.

Target platform

Tested on Any Docker based linux. (only tested for x86_64 based)

maybe works with not only docker images but also bare-metal.

tested docker images - Generic Linux distro.

• Debian
• Ubuntu
• OpenSuse
• RHEL7
  • registry.access.redhat.com/rhel7-atomic
  • registry.access.redhat.com/rhel7
• CentOS

tested docker images - busybox based Linux distro.

• Cirros

• Issue: busybox docker image has issue with HTTPS fetch. so cannot be installed.

Install

Just run command.

curl -sL bit.ly/alpineapk | sh

if you want setup for Busybox based distro(like cirros), use command below

curl -sL bit.ly/alpinebusybox | sh

License

MIT License. use your own risk.

Limitation

• Need curl command. (ubuntu and debian, opensuse minimal docker images has no curl. you have to install it.)
• Basicllay generic linux distro use basic library as "GLIBC". but alpine use "MUSL". There's no binary compatability between libc level.
• gcc compile is not compatable between Generic Linux Distro like (RHEL/CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu) and Alpine