Feature: Support for Alpine and Arch

[sechastain]

• [ X] I have read the CONTRIBUTING guidelines

Add support for Alpine Linux
All of the java binaries being downloaded by Alpine are built against glibc - Alpine leverages musl - and many (though not all) JVM providers offer Alpine downloads as a result, e.g.:

• https://download.bell-sw.com/java/8u322+6/bellsoft-jdk8u322+6-linux-x64-musl.apk
• https://download.bell-sw.com/vm/21.3.1/bellsoft-liberica-vm-openjdk11-21.3.1-linux-x64-musl.apk
• https://download.java.net/java/early_access/alpine/5/binaries/openjdk-19-ea+5_linux-x64-musl_bin.tar.gz
• https://corretto.aws/downloads/latest/amazon-corretto-17-x64-alpine-jdk.tar.gz
• https://github.com/adoptium/temurin17-binaries/releases/download/jdk-17.0.2%2B8/OpenJDK17U-jdk_x64_alpine-linux_hotspot_17.0.2_8.tar.gz
• etc

sdkman is pretty much useless without this support out of the box.

[marc0der]

sdkman is pretty much useless without this support out of the box.

@sechastain That's a bit harsh. I think your requirement is only a tiny segment of our total user base. The vast majority of our users don't use Alpine. That said, we can certainly do some work around supporting musl.

[sechastain]

Sorry - I only meant that in the context of Alpine. To be clear, it installs and runs fine. But the things it installs does not work, and, in that sense, it is useless - possibly worse than useless because the user gets the illusion that things have been done as the user has requested, but then none of those installed things work. At any rate, I appreciate you looking into it!

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