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Re: "Alpine: No tor-browser? No librewolf?"

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@jeang3nie: I didn't try that hard, just dropped the appimage, then tried to install libc6 compatibility package, then tried to trace startup through the shell scripts after installing bash, then gave up -- as what I was really interested in was tor browser... I do like Alpine, and would totally use it on a sever via ssh

🚀 stack [OP]

Jan 23 · 4 months ago

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🦀 jeang3nie · Jan 23 at 19:03:

Pretty sure that was the problem then. AppImage might include some libraries but generally assumes you have a certain base set of them, including Glibc.

libc6-compat is something different. That's for an even older libc that Linux distros used before Glibc became the standard, and the only reason to use it is in the rare case of trying to run some really, really old binaries from that era on modern linux. We're talking well over 20 years old at this point. Stuff from the 90's.

FYI since I see you're on Void now, Void actually offers two editions. One uses Glibc and one uses Musl. I imagine you installed the Glibc one because you aren't having these same issues.

🚀 stack [OP] · Jan 23 at 19:15:

jeang3nie: I sure did install the glibc version! Void has been problem-free. It's amusing to note that while most of the code I written lately is assembly against kernel calls, I am really dependent (for documentation etc) on the damned web browsers that have a huge footprint. And really spoiled by being able to quickly plug in USB hard drives.

🐙 norayr · Jan 24 at 01:26:

as i said, librewolf is installed on my postmarketos, which is based on alpine.

— librewolf on pkgs.alpinelinux.org

it is in repos, it works, i use it.

🚀 stack [OP] · Jan 24 at 02:16:

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Alpine: No tor-browser? No librewolf? — The honeymoon is over. I tried to install librewolf, my go-to browser with no telemetry, but could not get it to work, even with libc-6 compatibility apk installed. Next I tried to install tor browser. There is a tor package which ran once, but apparently it is just the transport, no browser, which is a serious security problem. And after a ctrl-c, I was unable to restart tor at all. All of it is weird: I know Firefox is a bit weird with libc, but...

💬 stack · 9 comments · Jan 22 · 4 months ago