How to Install Quizmaster from GitHub on Alpine Linux Latest

In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Quizmaster, a simple command-line quiz program, on Alpine Linux Latest.

Prerequisites

• A Linux machine running Alpine Linux Latest (either in a virtual machine or on a physical system).
• A working internet connection.

Step 1: Install Git and Dependencies

First, we need to install Git to be able to pull the Quizmaster source code from GitHub. In addition, we need to install a few dependencies required to build Quizmaster. To do this, we run the following command:

apk add git make build-base ncurses-dev

This command will download and install Git, make, build-essentials, and ncurses-dev packages on your system.

Step 2: Pull Quizmaster Source

Once Git is installed, we can pull the Quizmaster source code from its GitHub repository. We will use the git clone command to do this.

git clone https://github.com/nymanjens/quizmaster.git

This command will create a quizmaster directory in the current directory and pull the Quizmaster source code into it.

Step 3: Compile Quizmaster

With the source code on hand, we will now compile Quizmaster. Change your working directory to the quizmaster directory that Git has created, using the following command:

cd quizmaster

Now to compile Quizmaster, use the Make command in the following command:

make

This command will build the Quizmaster application and generate the quizmaster executable in the same directory.

Step 4: Run Quizmaster

Finally, we can run the Quizmaster program. Use the following command:

./quizmaster

This command will start the quiz and ask for user input.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Quizmaster on Alpine Linux Latest from GitHub. We have also compiled and run the program. Quizmaster is now ready to be used on your system.