How to Install CloudBeaver on Alpine Linux Latest

CloudBeaver is an open source database management tool that supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, and other relational databases. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing CloudBeaver on Alpine Linux latest version.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with the installation process, you need to make sure that the following prerequisites are met:

• You have sudo or root access to your server.
• You have a working internet connection on your server.
• You have the latest version of Alpine Linux installed on your system.

Step 1: Update the Package Repository

The first step to installing CloudBeaver on your Alpine Linux server is to update the package repository. To do this, open the terminal and run the following command:

sudo apk update

Step 2: Install the OpenJDK Runtime Environment

CloudBeaver requires the OpenJDK Runtime Environment to be installed on your system. To install OpenJDK on your Alpine Linux server, run the following command:

sudo apk add openjdk8

Step 3: Download and Install CloudBeaver

To download and install CloudBeaver, follow the steps below:

1. Go to the CloudBeaver download page at https://cloudbeaver.io/download.

2. Scroll down to the 'Linux' section, and click on the 'Linux (tar.gz)' button to download the compressed archive file of the latest version of CloudBeaver for Linux.

3. Once the download completes, extract the archive file using the following command:

   tar -xvzf cloudbeaver-<version>-linux-x64.tar.gz
   

   Replace version with the version of CloudBeaver you downloaded.

4. Move the extracted folder to the /opt directory using the following command:

   sudo mv cloudbeaver-<version>-linux-x64 /opt/cloudbeaver
   

   Again, replace version with the version of CloudBeaver you downloaded.

5. Create a symbolic link to make it easier to execute the CloudBeaver command:

   sudo ln -s /opt/cloudbeaver/cloudbeaver /usr/local/bin/cloudbeaver
   

   This will create a symbolic link from the /usr/local/bin directory to the cloudbeaver command in the /opt/cloudbeaver directory.

Step 4: Launch CloudBeaver

To launch CloudBeaver, open the terminal and run the following command:

cloudbeaver

This will start CloudBeaver on your Alpine Linux server. If it's running for the first time, it will ask you to accept the license agreement and set a password for the default user.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed how to install CloudBeaver on Alpine Linux latest version. Once CloudBeaver is installed, you can use it to manage your relational databases with ease.

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