How to Install Gogs on Alpine Linux Latest

Gogs is a self-hosted Git service written in Go. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Gogs on Alpine Linux Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we proceed, make sure you have the following:

• A server running Alpine Linux Latest
• Root or sudo access to the server
• Basic knowledge of Linux commands

Step 1: Update the system

Before installing any package, it is always a good practice to update the system to the latest version.

sudo apk update && sudo apk upgrade

Step 2: Install necessary packages

We will need to install git, SQLite, and haveged before installing Gogs.

sudo apk add git sqlite haveged

Step 3: Install Gogs

We will download and install the latest version of Gogs using the official Gogs binary release.

wget https://github.com/gogs/gogs/releases/download/v0.12.3/gogs_0.12.3_linux_amd64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf gogs_0.12.3_linux_amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv gogs /var/opt/

Step 4: Configure Gogs

We need to create a user and a group for Gogs.

sudo addgroup gogs
sudo adduser -D -H -G gogs -s /sbin/nologin gogs
sudo chown -R gogs:gogs /var/opt/gogs

Step 5: Start Gogs

We need to start the Gogs service to access the web interface.

cd /var/opt/gogs/
sudo -u gogs ./gogs web

Step 6: Access Gogs

Now, Gogs is running on the server, and you can access it using the server's IP address or hostname followed by the default port number (3000).

http://<server_IP_address>:3000

Conclusion

We have shown you how to install Gogs on Alpine Linux Latest. You can now use Gogs as your self-hosted Git service.

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