Installation on Alpine Linux

Installation on Alpine Linux

Enabling the Community Repository

dnscrypt-proxy is in the 'community' repository which needs to be enabled in /etc/apk/respositories by removing the comment # on the appropriate line e.g.

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

Installation

Alpine maintains discreet packages for dnscrypt-proxy, and the openrc package for managing the service

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 on https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/DNSCrypt-Proxy.

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 have their default values in that file only, and can't be moved into the original. To see the differences, use diff

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