Installing Alpine for MacOS

Follow the steps below to install a local client of Alpine on your MacOS machine.

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  1. Go to http://alpine.x10host.com/
     
     
     

  2. Download latest alpine.tar.xz file
     
     
     

  3. Unzip with command: tar -Jxf filenamehere
     
     

     1. For example, if your file is alpine-2.24.tar.xz, you would use the command: tar -Jxf alpine-2.24.tar.xz
        
        
        

  4. cd into unzipped directory
     
     
     

  5. Make sure OpenSSL version 1.0.0c or later is installed on your system, or the most recent version of LibreSSL.

     1. To check which version of OpenSSL you have, run the command: openssl version
        
        
        

  6. Type this entire command: ./configure ; make
     
     
     

  7. Type this command: make install
     
     
     

  8. NOTE: During the installation, if you get an error stating:

     A CA file has been bootstrapped using certificates from the system

     keychain. To add additional certificates, place .pem files in

       /usr/local/etc/openssl@1.1/certs

     and run

       /usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/bin/c_rehash

     openssl@1.1 is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local,

     because macOS provides LibreSSL.

     If you need to have openssl@1.1 first in your PATH run:

       echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/bin:$PATH"' >> /Users/yourmacusername/.bash_profile

     For compilers to find openssl@1.1 you may need to set:

       export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib"

       export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/include"

     
     Run the command: echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/bin:$PATH"' >> /Users/yourmacusername/.bash_profile

     1. Replace yourmacusername with your user directory's name on your MacOS machine.
        
        
        

  9. To start Alpine, run the command: alpine