Installation on Alpine Linux

Installation on Alpine Linux

Enabling the Community Repository

dnscrypt-proxy is in the 'community' repository, which must be enabled in /etc/apk/repositories by removing the comment # from the appropriate line, e.g.:

# main and community enabled, testing disabled on the 'edge' branch
https://alpine.mirror.wearetriple.com/edge/main
https://alpine.mirror.wearetriple.com/edge/community
#https://alpine.mirror.wearetriple.com/edge/testing

If you're not running on 'edge', then you might see the version numbers instead.

# main and community enabled, testing disabled on the 'V3.9' branch
https://alpine.mirror.wearetriple.com/V3.9/main
https://alpine.mirror.wearetriple.com/V3.9/community
#https://alpine.mirror.wearetriple.com/V3.9/testing

Installation

Alpine Linux maintains its own packages for dnscrypt-proxy and the openrc package for managing the service.

Installation:

apk update && apk add dnscrypt-proxy dnscrypt-proxy-openrc

Service Setup

To start at boot, use:

rc-update add dnscrypt-proxy default

Then, to start the service immediately:

rc-service dnscrypt-proxy start

or

/etc/init.d/dnscrypt-proxy start

Files

Configuration of the /etc/dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-proxy.toml file is discussed elsewhere on this wiki. There are also some examples in the Alpine package sources.

Example configuration files are stored in /usr/share/dnscrypt-proxy.

Upgrades

When upgrading the package, a new file /etc/dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-proxy.toml.apk-new will be created.

The original configuration file remains, and the new default configuration file gets this apk-new extension.

Be aware that new configuration properties (if available) will be in the apk-new file, since an edited configuration file cannot be automatically updated.

To see the differences, use the diff command:

diff /etc/dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-proxy.toml /etc/dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-proxy.toml.apk-new