How to Install Shhh on Alpine Linux Latest?

Introduction

In this tutorial, we are going to install Shhh on Alpine Linux. Alpine Linux is a lightweight operating system designed primarily for security, simplicity and resource efficiency. Shhh is a simple yet powerful command-line application that generates passphrases, secure and unique passwords, and symmetric encryption keys.

Prerequisites

• A running Alpine Linux with root access
• A basic knowledge of the Linux terminal

Steps

1. First, let's update the package list of our system by running the following command:

   apk update
   

2. Install the required packages by running this command:

   apk add git build-base
   

3. Now, we need to clone the Shhh repository from Github. Run the following command to clone the repository to your system:

   git clone https://github.com/smallwat3r/shhh.git
   

4. Move into the cloned Shhh directory by running the following command:

   cd shhh
   

5. We need to build the Shhh binaries with the make command by running the following command:

   make
   

6. After the build is complete, we can test the installation by running the following command:

   ./shhh
   

   This command will output a passphrase, secure and unique passwords, and symmetric encryption keys generated by Shhh.

7. If the test is successful, we can install Shhh globally on our system by running the following command:

   sudo make install
   

   Now, we can use Shhh command globally from any directory in the terminal.

8. Congratulations! You have successfully installed Shhh on your Alpine Linux.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have installed Shhh on Alpine Linux by cloning the Shhh repository, building the binaries with make, testing the installation, and installing it globally on our system. Now, you can use Shhh command to generate secure credentials on your system.

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