Alpine Linux

Table of Contents

1. Install

The initial setup is done with setup-alpine, you can enable the community repository from there too.

Alpine has a bunch of setup- scripts to get started, for example to setup a desktop run setup-desktop.

2. Manpages

The man command (see notes:man) and manpages are not installed by default

apk add mandoc

Install the documentation for a given package

apk add PACKAGE-doc

The docs meta package will immediately install the documentation sub-package for all of the currently installed packages, plus the mandoc reader, if not installed. docs additionally ensures that documentation sub-packages are installed/removed automatically for any packages that one may add/remove in the future.

apk add docs

Search installed manpages with apropos (the equivalent of the man -k command)

apk add mandoc-apropos
apropos KEYWORD

3. References