options:

- don't download binary AppImages. just compile source tarballs tar.gz of the software you need with "./configure ; make ; make install"

(#Slackware way?)

if this instruction won't work - that's a bad software - gotta rewrite software. (build scripts, build instructions, makefiles). optionally could build apk packages.

- install & use 3rd party source based package managers : nixpkgs, bsd ports, gentoo's portage.

- could install glibc in parallell. compile, link vs it in /opt

- use AppImages, Snaps, Flatpaks, Docker images in vm.

- could look in to Conan, Bazel, CMake for free build scripts.

Alpine+musl best selling feature - is a possibility to statically compile portable binaries, avoiding dependency hell.

#linux #alpine #development #unix #bsd #musl #glibc #appimage #devops #gentoo #nixos #nixpkgs