Alpine

This tutorial will guide you through the installation of Alpine.

Essential Information

Alpine provided by Andronix is open source including all the scripts needed for installing it. You can take a look at it here.

Download size - 2 MB

The size mentioned above is not the size after installing Alpine but it's just the tar size that Andronix downloads. This doesn't include a desktop environment for the GUI.

How to Install?

• Open the Andronix App and click on the Alpine card.

• Click the Install button.

• The first option will install Alpine with the mentioned Desktop Environment. The last Non-DE variant installs Alpine without any Desktop Environment and is recommended for using the distro only with a Command Line Interface.

We recommend to choose XFCE variant as it is the most stable, smooth, advanced and customizable Desktop Environment present at the moment

• Use the command below to update your termux packages so that you're running the updated versions of the required packages.

pkg update

• Tap & hold anywhere on the screen and press Paste.

• Press Enter and wait till the installation completes.

• Type the following command to start the distro **and press enter.

./start-alpine.sh

• Now if you see root@localhost in Termux then you have successfully started Alpine.

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