How to install Debian packages on Alpine?

Question

How to install Debian packages on Alpine?

For example:

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb_0.13.0_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i influxdb_0.13.0_armhf.deb

Answer 1

Good news:

alpine now has dpkg package available in its repository and you can install it by apk add dpkg and you can use dpkg -i *.deb to install the deb you want.