Install Pelican
Alpine Linux

Install Pelican on Alpine

This document explains how to install Pelican on a Alpine Linux operating system.

Install Pelican APK

You can install Pelican by downloading an .apk package or by downloading a binary .tar.gz file. You only need to follow one section below to install.

Install the Pelican using an APK pacakge

  1. Navigate to Pelican download page and select the Pelican APK you want to install.

  2. In Operating System section, select Linux. In Architectures section, select AMD64 (Intel/AMD) or ARM64 (ARM) depending on the architecture of your machine.

  3. In the list of download candidates, copy the link to pelican_x.x.x_p1_aarch64.apk if you select AARCH64 (ARM), or pelican_x.x.x_p1_x86_64.apk if you select X84_64 (Intel/AMD). Where x.x.x is the version number.

  4. Change the following command with the link to the binary you copied in the previous step and run the command

    wget <replace-with-the-link-you-copied>
sudo apk add --allow-untrusted pelican_7.5.8_p1_aarch64.apk

    Note that you need to replace pelican_7.5.8_p1_aarch64.apk with the file name you downloaded to your current directory.

    Example to install Pelican v7.5.8 APK for an Intel/AMD machine:

    wget https://github.com/PelicanPlatform/pelican/releases/download/v7.5.8/pelican_7.5.8_p1_x86_64.apk
sudo apk add --allow-untrusted pelican_7.5.8_p1_x86_64.apk

Install Pelican as a standalone binary

Refer to the previous section on how to install Pelican as a standalone binary.

Uninstall on Alpine

To uninstall Pelican, run the following command

sudo apk del pelican

Verify Pelican is installed

Refer to the previous section on how to verify that Pelican is successfully installed.

Next steps

If you want to use Pelican client to download or upload files, refer to Client Usage to get started. If you want to serve a Pelican server, refer to Serve a Pelican Origin and Serve a Pelican Federation.

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