SETUP-WAYLAND-BASE(8)

📦 version 3.22.0, in alpine 3.24

💅 SETUP-WAYLAND-BASE(8) 💅

okay bestie, so this is a System Manager's Manual page, and it's literally the glow-up your box needs before it can serve Wayland looks ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

setup-wayland-base — get your system all set up for Wayland, no cap 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

setup-wayland-base [-h] [PKG ...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So setup-wayland-base is the main character here 👑 — it prepares a system for Wayland-based graphical environments. Basically it's doing the backstage prep so your Wayland era can actually happen.

Here's the whole to-do list it slays through:

  • enables community package repositories 🛍️
  • installs elogind and polkit-elogind 📦
  • configures udev — and it does this via setup-devd 🧚
  • enables and starts the cgroups and dbus services 🔥

And the cute part: any additional packages you pass as arguments get installed alongside elogind 🫶 so you can yeet everything you need in one go.

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

  • -h — shows you the usage info and then dips out, exit stage left 🚪✨

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

  • 0 — success, we ate 💅
  • non-zero — something went wrong 😭 an error occurred

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read those too, iykyk 📚💜

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> and others 🫡 iconic behavior fr fr

mwah 💋 this page is brought to you by Alpine Linux, dated 2026-06-09 — that's the version and date bestie, drink some water and go set up that Wayland 💖✨🎀

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