How to install nano on boot2docker

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phazei picture phazei · Feb 26, 2015 · Viewed 17.3k times · Source

I'm running the boot2docker VM in windows and need to modify the init scripts within the VM. Currently my only option is VI, and it's a pain. I'd just like to use nano, but it's not available.

It's running:

docker@boot2docker:/c$ uname -a
Linux boot2docker 3.18.5-tinycore64 #1 SMP Sun Feb 1 06:02:30 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

There is no apt-get or any package manager. How can I just get nano added so I can edit files easily?

EDIT:

@John-Petrone 's answer works, but after it's installed, running nano gives the error:

Error opening terminal: cygwin.

In case anyone else has that problem, the issue is $TERM was set to cygwin. Not sure why. I just:

TERM=xterm-color

And then nano worked! ( if set to any other available terms in /usr/share/terminfo/x funky characters showed up )

Answer

John Petrone picture John Petrone · Feb 26, 2015

Boot2Docker is based on Tiny Linux which uses tce-load to install packages. The list of packages in the repository can be found here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/tcz_2x.html

You'll see that the nano packages is nano.tcz , so you'll run something like:

tce-load -wi nano

This article: http://lowtek.ca/roo/2015/modify-boot2docker-iso/ should also be helpful along with this one: http://www.gerrelt.nl/RaspberryPi/wordpress/tutorial-unpluggable-squeezelite-player-on-tinycore/#Search_and_install_NANO_extension

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