How To Install alpine-chroot-install on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine-chroot-install on Debian 12.
What is alpine-chroot-install
alpine-chroot-install is:
This script builds an Alpine Linux chroot, fetching packages from a network mirror. The installed system is quite minimal, but contains enough to let you install whatever you need using “apk”.
In other words, it’s alpine’s debootstrap.
There are three methods to install alpine-chroot-install on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install alpine-chroot-install Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install alpine-chroot-install using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install alpine-chroot-install
Install alpine-chroot-install Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install alpine-chroot-install using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install alpine-chroot-install
Install alpine-chroot-install Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install alpine-chroot-install using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install alpine-chroot-install
How To Uninstall alpine-chroot-install on Debian 12
To uninstall only the alpine-chroot-install package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove alpine-chroot-install
Uninstall alpine-chroot-install And Its Dependencies
To uninstall alpine-chroot-install and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove alpine-chroot-install
Remove alpine-chroot-install Configurations and Data
To remove alpine-chroot-install configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge alpine-chroot-install
Remove alpine-chroot-install configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove alpine-chroot-install configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alpine-chroot-install
Dependencies
alpine-chroot-install have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine-chroot-install package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
