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Installing OpenTofu on Alpine Linux

OpenTofu is available in the Alpine Linux testing repository or as an .apk package from the GitHub releases page.

Installing using the installer​

You can use the OpenTofu installer script to run the installation.

# Download the installer script:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsSL https://get.opentofu.org/install-opentofu.sh -o install-opentofu.sh
# Alternatively: wget --secure-protocol=TLSv1_2 --https-only https://get.opentofu.org/install-opentofu.sh -O install-opentofu.sh

# Give it execution permissions:
chmod +x install-opentofu.sh

# Please inspect the downloaded script

# Run the installer:
./install-opentofu.sh --install-method apk

# Remove the installer:
rm install-opentofu.sh

Installing the .apk​

You can also download the .apk and install it on your Alpine Linux. You can install the .apk package after downloading it:

apk add --allow-untrusted tofu_*.apk

Installing from the testing repository​

OpenTofu is currently available in the Alpine Testing repository and coming to Alpine stable. You can use the following commands to test Alpine installation.

echo '@testing https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing' >> /etc/apk/repositories
apk add opentofu@testing