Tutorials and Howtos

Welcome to Tutorials and Howtos, a place of basic and advanced configuration tasks for your Alpine Linux.

Howtos are smaller articles explaining how to perform a particular task with Alpine Linux, that expects a minimal knowledge from reader to perform actions. Howto's have been organized in the below page based on the topics.

The tutorials are hands-on and the reader is expected to try and achieve the goals described in each step, possibly with the help of a good example. The output in one step is the starting point for the following step.

Note:
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  • Don't override already made contributions, unless there is a mistake.
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Desktop

    Alpine Linux is a general purpose Linux distribution designed for power users. It is built to be small and resource efficient. If you feel the defaults are too lightweight for desktop use, it is easy to get most of the regular stuff working and use Alpine Linux as a daily driver by following this guide.

    Prerequisites

    Once the above prerequisites are met, install any desktop of choice from the list of supported Desktop environments and Window managers either manually or using setup-desktop script.

    Tip: Except for the first three Prerequisites, all the others are automatically handled, if setup-desktop script is used.

    Basics

    • Learn the alpine package keeper basics or refer wiki page.
    • Install some fonts to make your desktop look better.
    • Install the necessary File management packages for automounting of removable storage and browsing of network shares that works seamlessly with file associations.
    • Setup a sound server to manage your audio and configure your Bluetooth, if you have one.
    • Configure Power management so that your computer switches to a low-power state when inactive or when laptop lid is closed.
    • Configure your printer.
    • Enable documentation, so man pages are available.
    • Graphical tools to manage official packages, Flatpaks and ways to run glibc binaries can be found in Software management page.

    Desktop security

    Advanced

    • Learn basics of openrc, the alpine Linux init system or refer Open rc wiki.
    • If you want the rolling release version of Alpine Linux, enable the Edge repository.
    • Explore the testing repository, as it provides a lot more applications.

    Networking

    Backup and data migration

    Other topics

    Diskless

    Other Architectures

    ARM

    Raspberry Pi

    IBM Z (IBM z Systems)

    PowerPC

    Security

    Services

    Note: Services are arranged in alphabetical order.

    Content management systems

    • DokuWiki (Simple and easy to use wiki, no database required)
    • Drupal (Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP)
    • Kopano (Microsoft Outlook compatible Groupware)
    • Mahara (E-portfolio and social networking system)
    • MediaWiki (Free web-based wiki software application)
    • Pastebin (Pastebin software application)
    • WordPress (Web software to create website or blog)
    • Moodle (Online Learning Management system)

    Database

    DNS

    File server

    Firewall

    HTTP and web services

    IRC

    • NgIRCd (Server for Internet Relay Chat/IRC)

    Mail

    Monitoring

    Remote Administration

    Telephony

    VPN

    Other Servers


    Software development

    Storage

    Virtualization

    Tutorials

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