This article will describe how to enable apk community repository. emacs package is in apk community repository.
1 Enable apk community repository
By default, community repository is comment out.
# cat /etc/apk/repositories #/media/cdrom/apks http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/main #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/community #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing
Delete comment out and enable community repository.
# sed -e 's;^#http\(.*\)/v3.6/community;http\1/v3.6/community;g' \
-i /etc/apk/repositories
# apk update
2 Install emacs from apk community repository
After enabling apk community repository, emacs can be installed by apk add.
# apk add emacs