How to install Debian packages on Alpine?

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viswa picture viswa · Jun 8, 2016 · Viewed 17.4k times · Source

How to install Debian packages on Alpine?

For example:

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb_0.13.0_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i influxdb_0.13.0_armhf.deb

Answer

JiaHao Xu picture JiaHao Xu · May 29, 2019

Good news:

alpine now has dpkg package available in its repository and you can install it by apk add dpkg and you can use dpkg -i *.deb to install the deb you want.

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