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How to specify architecture when installing apk package

I'm building Alpine Linux in a docker container on an ARM machine, and are trying to specify the package architecture that I wish to install. I cannot see how to do this even though the package and architecture are listed at the Alpine repository. https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=mosquitto&branch=v3.4&repo=main&arch=armhf&maintainer=

I have read the Alpine apk help pages at https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux_package_management but cannot see how to specify an architecture. This, for example, does not work.

RUN apk --no-cache add mosquitto:armhf
Solution

  • You don’t need to, architecture is automatically detected.