Subject: Re: apk add libuser: unsatisfiable constraints
To: BZ <beezwerks@gmail.com>, ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
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From: Konstantin Kulikov <k.kulikov2@gmail.com>
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 10:04:04 +0300
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On 12/8/19 12:21 AM, BZ wrote:
> While I have both repositories available in /etc/apk/repositories:
> #/media/cdrom/apks
> http://ewr.edge.kernel.org/alpine/v3.10/main
> http://ewr.edge.kernel.org/alpine/v3.10/community
> #http://ewr.edge.kernel.org/alpine/edge/main
> #http://ewr.edge.kernel.org/alpine/edge/community
> #http://ewr.edge.kernel.org/alpine/edge/testing
> 
> When I follow the instructions here for changing shells:
> https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Change_default_shell
> 
> I receive an error:
> $ apk add libuser
> ERROR: unsatisfiable constraints:
>    libuser (missing):
>      required by: world[libuser]
> 

libuser is in testing repo. You can install 'shadow' which is in 
community, it installs suid binary though. The most simple way is to 
edit /etc/passwd directly.