In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Factor on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before installing any package, it's important to update the system to the latest packages. To update and upgrade your system using the following command:
apk update && apk upgrade
Factor requires several dependencies which are not installed by default on Alpine Linux. We need to install them first, using the following command:
apk add build-base libatomic readline readline-dev openssl openssl-dev
The first step to install Factor is to get the latest release package. The latest version of Factor can be found on their official website (http://www.factor.io/).
Retrieve the latest stable release with the following command:
wget https://downloads.factorcode.org/releases/0.98/factor-linux-x86-64-0.98.tar.gz
Extract the files from the downloaded package:
tar -xzvf factor-linux-x86-64-0.98.tar.gz
We now need to add Factor to the system path so that it can be executed from anywhere. We will add the extracted directory to the PATH by editing the profile file with the following command:
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/factor' >> /etc/profile
Replace /path/to/factor with the actual path to the extracted Factor folder.
Now, reload the profile by sourcing the file with the following command:
source /etc/profile
To check if the installation is successful, run the following command:
factor
This should open up the Factor shell. Now you can start using Factor.
That's it! We have successfully installed Factor on Alpine Linux Latest. You can now explore the Factor programming language and build your own applications.
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