HIAC

Highly Integrated Alpine Container

Getting started

Make a alpine linux container

replace hiac-container with a name you want to name your container

distrobox create -i alpine:latest -n hiac-container -p

Seperated home container if you want to keep dot files and other configs sepearated

distrobox create -i alpine:latest -n hiac-container -p -H ~/container-home-dir

Enter the container

replace hiac-container with the name you used to create the container if you used a different name

distrobox enter hiac-container

Run the script

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dnkmmr69420/HIAC/main/setup.sh)

Some changes this script does

• Adds uhe for executing applications as normal user on the host and rhe for executing applications as root on the host. It does the same thing as distrobox-host-exec but you type less letters

• Creates several symlinks against /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec for fetch programs to detect host package count

• Installs gcompat for glibc support and xz for tar.xz support

Optional steps

GNOME related

Adw-gtk3

Run this for adw-gtk3 to be installed for the container

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dnkmmr69420/HIAC/main/install-adw-gtk3.sh)

Clock

To set clock to 12h type

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-format 12h

for 24h

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-format 24h

Other

you need librsvg to run certain applications like tilix

sudo apk add librsvg

neofetch showing info of host instead of container

This may break the container so only do this if you find it necesarry. Report bugs if you have problems with this so I can make a list of what will cause the container to break.

sudo mv /etc/os-release /etc/os-release.backup ; sudo ln -s /run/host/etc/os-release /etc/os-release