Setup iSH / Alpine Linux on iPad

ish-apks.txt

# edit the login message
vi /etc/motd

# switch to usable repos - iSH defaults often failed with EOF errors
echo https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.13/main > /etc/apk/repositories
echo https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.13/community >> /etc/apk/repositories

# install some basics
apk add zsh bash
apk add sed attr dialog dialog-doc bash bash-doc bash-completion grep grep-doc
apk add util-linux util-linux-doc pciutils usbutils binutils findutils readline
apk add lsof lsof-doc less less-doc nano nano-doc curl curl-doc

# add utilities
apk add git bat jq mosquitto-clients

# install Ruby (NB ruby-json req'd for some gems)
apk add ruby ruby-dev build-base ruby-json

# refresh
apk upgrade

# install and setup twurl
gem install twurl
# (copy in a usable .twurlrc)
twurl -j "/1.1/users/show.json?screen_name=andypiper" | jq