Erlang apk installation error

[sandytrinh]

When installing Erlang package in alpine linux via this command line

apk add --update erlang --update-cache --allow-untrusted -X http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/

I got the following error:

ERROR: unsatisfiable constraints:
so:libncurses.so.6 (missing):
required by: erlang-18.1-r3[so:libncurses.so.6]

[sandytrinh]

@msaraiva here's the results for the commands you have requested:

cat /etc/alpine-release returns 3.2.3 cat /etc/apk/repositories returns http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.2/main

[ncopa]

you need either use both edge/main and edge/community repo or wait for v3.3.

Erlang should work with this as your repos:

 http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main
 http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community

The v3.3 main and community repos should have erlang in a week or so.

[msaraiva]

@sandytrinh have you tried to change your /etc/apk/repositories as proposed? Does it work now?

As soon we have Alpine Linux v3.3, I'll update all images as described here. After that, we don't expect this kind of issues anymore.

@ncopa, thanks for your response. It's great to hear that version 3.3 is right at the door.

[sandytrinh]

@msaraiva Sorry for the late response. I can confirm that @ncopa's suggestion works! Thanks @ncopa!

Thanks for taking a look at this guys :)

I look forward to the new release.

[ncopa]

erlang should now be available from v3.3/community repo.

[sandytrinh]

@ncopa Awesome!