SETUP-XORG-BASE(8)

📦 version 3.22.0, in alpine 3.24

💖 setup-xorg-base(8) — the vibe check ✨

okay so bestie, before we even start: this is section 8 of the System Manager's Manual, which is fancy-speak for "admin commands, handle with your cutest caution." 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

setup-xorg-base — literally the glow-up your system needs to get ✨Xorg✨ going.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

setup-xorg-base prepares a system for X11-based graphical environments. no cap, that's the whole mission. 💅

here's what it actually does, step by step, because we love a transparent icon:

  • enables community package repositories ✅
  • installs xorg-server ✅
  • installs xf86-input-libinput ✅
  • installs xinit ✅
  • installs eudev ✅
  • installs mesa-dri-gallium ✅
  • configures udev (via setup-devd) ✅

and like — any extra packages you hand it as arguments? those get installed alongside the Xorg packages. so you can just toss your faves in there and it'll do the whole haul in one go. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -h — displays usage information and dips. that's it, that's the option. main character energy honestly. 💀

🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

  • 0 — success! slay, it worked, we're thriving. 💖
  • non-zero — an error occurred 😭 something went sideways, go check the vibes.

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

(iykyk these are the sibling setup scripts — go read them too, they're iconic in their own right 🦋)

🍓 AUTHORS 🍓

Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> and others — legends, all of them. 👑

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