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How to install "autom4te" on Alpine Linux

Problem:

When trying to build applications on Alpine Linux, you sometimes see messages like

how-to-install-autom4te-on-alpine-linux.txt
sh: autom4te: not found
aclocal: error: autom4te failed with exit status: 127

but when you try to apk install autom4te you see that the package can not be found:

apk_fetch_error.txt
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.17/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.17/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: unable to select packages:
    autom4te (no such package):
        required by: world[autom4te]

Solution

autom4te is available from the autoconf package. Therefore, in order to fix the issue, you can run

install_autoconf.sh
apk install autoconf
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