How to install software

[luney]

I think that perhaps I need to add some more repositories in order to install some more software. For example:

lingot
pysolfc

for lingot I simply get

$ sudo apk add lingot
[sudo] password for user:
fetch http://mirror.postmarketos.org/postmarke...DEX.tar.gz
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3....DEX.tar.gz
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3....DEX.tar.gz
ERROR: unable to select packages:
  lingot (no such package):
    required by: world[lingot]

If I try:
$ sudo apk search -v -d pysol
I get
py3-pysol-cards-0.10.1-r0 - Deal PySol FC Cards

$ sudo apk add (any one of:
for pysol, pysolfc, py3-pysol) I get the same result

I have not used alpine before, so I am learning ... slowly

Thanks

Andrew

APK is an app manager. So when you have that result, that means it isn't part of APK. There are several other ways to install applications, such as using make, flatpak, snap, etc. The success of the installs will depend on many factors, such as, can it run on amd64. Alpine is a very small in size linux flavor made for imbedded systems. For example, mkchromecast isn't available in apk and I could install from sources, but it would be a chore, because of the dependencies needed for postmarket as well. Meanwhile is it available on mobian in the GUI. So you have many options, but APK isn't one of them. 
 
You can turn the endeavor into a contribution as well. You could look into building and adding it to apk.