apk - Alpine Package Keeper
apk [<options>...] command [<arguments>...]
apk manages packages installed on the system. The set of top level packages to install is called the world (see apk-world(5)). apk supports various sub-commands to query and manipulate world and local & remote package repositories.
Each command is documented in detail on its manual page.
The following options are available for all commands.
-f, --force
Enable selected --force-* options (deprecated).
-i, --interactive
Ask confirmation before performing certain operations. Interactive mode can be made the default when running on a tty, by creating /etc/apk/interactive as an empty file.
-p, --root ROOT
Manage file system at ROOT.
-q, --quiet
Print less information.
-U, --update-cache
Alias for ’--cache-max-age 1’.
-v, --verbose
Print more information (can be specified twice).
-V, --version
Print program version and exit.
-X, --repository REPO
Specify additional package repository. This option can be specified multiple times.
--allow-untrusted
Install packages with untrusted signature or no signature.
--arch ARCH
Temporarily override architecture, to be combined with --root.
--cache-dir CACHEDIR
Temporarily override the cache directory. CACHEDIR is treated relative to the ROOT.
--cache-max-age AGE
Maximum AGE (in minutes) for index in cache before it’s refreshed.
--force-binary-stdout
Continue even if binary data will be printed to the terminal.
--force-broken-world
Continue even if world cannot be satisfied.
--force-missing-repositories
Continue even if some of the repository indexes are not available.
--force-non-repository
Continue even if packages may be lost on reboot. This can happen when running in run-from-tmpfs mode, and installing non-repository package.
--force-old-apk
Continue even if packages use unsupported features.
--force-overwrite
Overwrite files in other packages.
--force-refresh
Do not use cached files (local or from proxy).
--keys-dir KEYSDIR
Override directory of trusted keys. This is treated relative to ROOT.
--no-cache
Do not use any local cache path.
--no-check-certificate
Do not validate the HTTPS server certificates.
--no-interactive
Disable interactive mode.
--no-network
Do not use the network. The cache is still used when possible.
--no-progress
Disable progress bar even for TTYs.
--print-arch
Print default arch and exit.
--progress
Show progress.
--progress-fd FD
Write progress to the specified file descriptor.
--purge
Purge modified configuration and cached packages. Enables deletion of modified configuration files on package removal. On cache clean action this enables deletion of unneeded cached packages (uninstalled packages on tmpfs installations or all packages on disk installations).
--repositories-file REPOFILE
Override system repositories, see apk-repositories(8). Specifying this option overrides the normal repositories file and repositories.d directory processing. The given REPOFILE is relative to the startup directory since apk 2.12.0_rc2.
--timeout TIME
Timeout network connections if no progress is made in TIME seconds. The default is 60 seconds.
--wait TIME
Wait for TIME seconds to get an exclusive repository lock before failing.
The following options are available for all commands which commit the database.
-s, --simulate
Simulate the requested operation without making any changes. The database is opened in read only mode, and auto-updating of indexes is disabled. You may want to run "apk update" before running a simulation to make sure it is done with up-to-date repository indexes.
--clean-protected
Do not create .apk-new files in configuration directories.
--overlay-from-stdin
Read list of overlay files from stdin. Normally this is used only during initramfs when booting run-from-tmpfs installation.
--no-scripts
Do not execute any scripts. Useful for extracting a system image for different architecture on alternative ROOT.
--no-commit-hooks
Skip pre/post hook scripts (but not other scripts).
--initramfs-diskless-boot
Used by initramfs when it’s recreating root tmpfs. This enables selected force options to minimize failure, and disables commit hooks, among other features.
The following options are available for all commands which operate on the package indexes only.
--from FROMSPEC
Search packages from: system (all system sources), repositories (exclude installed database), installed (exclude normal repositories) or none (commandline repositories only).
This apk has coffee making abilities.