setup-alpine-daily-use

The setup-alpine-daily-use script sets a fresh Alpine system up for daily use (e.g checking emails, browsing the web). Its purpose is to make it easier to reset my systems to a fresh state periodically.

I wrote this script mostly to myself. It will configure the system according to my personal preferences, meaning it will most likely not suit your needs. Yet, you might learn a thing or two by just reading the source code.

If you are just looking for a way to get started with Alpine, you should check the Alpine Wiki instead.

Note that the script is supposed to be executed in a fresh system. Instructions on how to achieve that can be found at:

• Alpine Installation.
• Alpine Installation on ARM,
• Alpine Installation on Raspberry Pi,
• Alpine Installation on Raspberry Pi 4.
• The Makefile in this repository (check variables and call make flashdrive).

Usage

$ wget -O /usr/sbin/setup-alpine-daily-use https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yokomizor/setup-alpine-daily-use/master/setup-alpine-daily-use
$ chmod +x /usr/sbin/setup-alpine-daily-use
$ setup-alpine-daily-use -h
usage: setup-alpine-daily-use [-h] [-d] [-u username] [-r git remote repository] [-l git local path]

options:
 -d  Don't assign a password to daily use user
 -h  Show this help
 -l  Daily use user dotfiles git local path
 -r  Daily use user dotfiles git remote repository uri
 -u  Daily use user username

All parameters are optional. You will be asked when needed.

What is going to be installed?

Most notably:

• Graphical user interface using sway (Wayland). No login manager will be installed though. Sway will start on tty7 using the daily use user.

• Custom us-intl keyboard layout with the hardcoded kdb option ctrl:swapcaps for those who have realized that CAPSLOCK, besides not being very useful, sits in the VIP row in the keyboard club. A popular approach to achieve the same goal is through setxkbmap. Such approach is not suitable for tty usage.

• tmux, vim, mutt, git, gpg, wg-quick, iptables, tor... just take a look into the source code. It should be reasonably understandable.

• It will disable ipv6.

• It will also create a user for daily use, and fetch dotfiles from a git repository.