What works?

As said here many programs do fail, so here is a list of programs known to be working (or not).

If you add a new test for a package, please add a line (same if package was already tested). Feel free to update the device tested if the build is newer.

Package name	Is working?	Notes	iSH version number
adb	Yes	Works over WiFi, installed from package android-tools	510
grep, head, cut, wc	Yes		33
tput	Yes		33
irssi	Yes		38
ifconfig	No	/proc/net/dev: No such file or directory ioctl 0x8912 failed: Not a tty	178
ip	No	ip: socket(AF_NETLINK,3,0): Invalid argument	178
weechat	Yes		53
bash	Yes		33
zsh	Yes		48
nano	Yes		33
nvim	Yes		41
vim	Yes		33
vi	Yes		33
fish	Yes		45
neofetch	Yes		52
screenfetch	Yes w/ errors	/proc/cpuinfo: No such file or directory	91
node	Yes		73
curl	Yes	HTTPS too	33
wget	Yes	HTTPS too	33
python3	Yes	Every applicaton based on python is slow	491
pip	Yes	Yes, very slow	491
yt-dlp	Yes	Slow to start	491
cmus	No	First launch resulted in a failure to initialize error. Subsequent launches seemed OK, but cannot play audio (fails with Error: opening audio device: No such file or directory	158
ffmpeg	Yes	Transcoding is slow, use -c copy to copy frames and save time.	35
emacs	Yes	works recursively in M-x term !	36
openssh (client)	Yes		31
openssh (server)	Yes	Follow the instructions on the wiki, but uses the deprecated SHA-1 instead of SHA-2, which inhibits SFTP clients to connect. ssh (including from mc) and rsync commands into iSH however, do work.	45
openssh (server)	No	tested on Ubuntu 18.04.5 illegal instruction at 0xf79f981d: 0f de d8 66 0f de e2 66	74
resolvconf	Yes	Tested on Ubuntu 18.04.5	74
ps	Yes		34
ruby	Yes		34
irb	Yes		35
gem	Yes		38
go	No	go build freezes, see #1230	67
mate-session	No	Bad system call	37
tmux	Yes		53
screen	Yes	Detaches and reattaches!	53
figlet	Yes		40
uptime	Yes		40
links	Yes		40
lynx	Yes		40
gdb	No	Segfault, socketcall 16	40
gdb	Yes		Alpine 3.14.3
w3m	Yes	Quits with GC Warning: Couldn't read /proc/stat	40
nmap	Yes*	*Runs with modifications to how it is executed	40
&, bg, fg, jobs	Yes		44
mc	Yes	Midnight Commander, works, including editor and connecting to sftp servers.	298
ed	Yes		52
git	Yes		53
mosh	Yes		54
gcc	Yes		55
gawk	Yes		55
clang	Yes		55
arp	No	can't open '/proc/net/arp': No such file or directory	73
php	Yes		65
php (extensions)	Yes. PHP 7 SSL does not work, but PHP 8 SSL does.		65
stunnel3	Yes	perl needs to be installed	65
perl	Yes		65
openssl	Yes	Even signing certificates work perfectly fine	65
dillo	Partially working	Follow the instructions to install VNC server. Requires fonts-noto to be installed. Some websites don’t work	67
dpkg	No	Illegal Instruction	73
wine	No	Illegal Instruction when trying to run any program	73
R	Yes	For installing CRAN packages follow the instructions on the wiki	73
lftp	Yes		73
sshfs	No	fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first	74
apt,apt-*	No	Illegal instruction	74
plistutil	Yes		74
img4tool	Yes		74
brew (tigerbrew)	No	Error: Cannot find a vendored version of curl for your i686 processor on Linuxbrew! Error: Failed to install vendor Curl.	74
systemd	No		74
plasma-desktop	No	Illegal Instruction	74
sddm	No	Illegal Instruction	74
init (busybox)	Yes		74
dumb-init	Yes		74
openrc	Yes	both the openrc command and init system works	74
runit	No		74
dpkg (busybox)	Yes	compile with -mtune=i386	74
lighttpd	No	(stat_cache.c.601) server.stat-cache-engine can be one of "disable", "simple", but not: fam	76
jq	Yes		76
nautilus	Yes	Will illegal instruction after first use, need to delete configuration.	76
gnome-calculator	Yes	Will illegal instruction after first use, need to delete configuration.	76
dig	No	Runtime check fails but you can use drill as a drop-in replacement	1.0.1
drill	Yes		1.0.1
wptc-track	Yes		78
ddate	Yes		1.0.1
metasploit-framework	Yes	launch with msfconsole -n	78
apache2	Yes	launch with /usr/sbin/httpd note: couldn't get php to work in apache2, but php 8 does work in Apache 2.4.x .	91
mysql	No	ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) note: running with --user=root the program hard crashes.	91
useradd	No	useradd: not found	91
htop	No	Error: 'No btime in /proc/stat: No such file or directory'	298
top	Yes		91
kill	Yes		91
xmodmap	No	xmodmap: unable to open display ''	178
setxkbmap	No	Cannot open display "default display"	178
snmpwalk	Yes		178
nginx	No	#137
dropbear	Yes	Client works, server runs if invoked with -E and port higher than 1024
cadaver	No	Hangs on start, no message
sqlite3	Yes		298
adduser, addgroup	Yes	Included in package coreutils	298
sudo	Yes		298
ssh-agent, ssh-add	Yes		298
command-not-found	Yes	works in ash and bash but not zsh	298
pwsh	No	exec error	298
R	Yes	see Installing R and any package from the CRAN	298
rustup	No	rustup: installer for platform 'i686-unknown-linux-musl' not found, this may be unsupported	298
tor	Yes	Can proxy SSH and HTTP/browser clients. obfs4proxy apk not available, may be possible, but see go build issues. SSH/HTTP settings gist	298
qemu	No	Bad system call (sys_splice missing on emu/sys_bpf missing on qemu_img)	491
asciiquarium	Yes		494
exa	Yes		494
mutt	Yes		494
strace	No	strace: test_ptrace_get_syscall_info: PTRACE_SETOPTIONS: Invalid argument	Alpine 3.14.3 (What is the iSH version number and how does one find it?)
helix	yes	only version 22.03-r0 available from this repository: https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/community	756

Testers: jusdepatate, Mnpn, elchris414, JaquesBoum, wjid, DiscordDigital, Linux, assfugil, ReedSan, stheno, lkxed, Heavysnowjakarta, torsionion, kaikunxp

Test Requests

If you want a specific package to be tested, please add it here including special use cases you are interested in. This makes it easier to test meaningful things.

Package name	What to test / Note
example	...
docker-ce	For running webapps
code-server	To run vs code in browser
ghc	Haskell file compiling
ocaml	Ocaml compiling / Installing Opam packages
gap	Testing packages written for gap-system.org
hugo	Static site generator written in golang
yay	Yes, this is one package manager of AUR. This may sound crazy, but it may be possible to install AUR packages on Alpine. By adding package “arch-install-script”, arch-chroot, pacman and pkgbuild will appear. However, although with repositories for Arch Linux configured, almost no packages can be installed, even vim for lack of dependancies. What’s more, pkgbuild does not work for “permission denied”.
obfs4proxy	For using Tor bridges
caddy	It is a famous modern http server. It basically runs, but its performance doesn’t quite match the official description. For example, the Caddyfile in the current directory doesn’t seem to be automatically recognized and requires the --config flag to be added.