diff --git a/depends/README.md b/depends/README.md
index b1247b319e..e85c5459db 100644
--- a/depends/README.md
+++ b/depends/README.md
@@ -53,6 +53,18 @@ To build dependencies for the current arch+OS:
 
     gmake
 
+### Alpine
+
+    apk add bash build-base cmake curl make patch
+
+Skip the following packages if you don't intend to use the GUI and will build with [`NO_QT=1`](#dependency-options):
+
+    apk add bison linux-headers samurai pkgconf python3
+
+To build dependencies for the current arch+OS:
+
+    make
+
 ## Configuring Bitcoin Core
 
 **When configuring Bitcoin Core, CMake by default will ignore the depends output.** In
diff --git a/doc/build-unix.md b/doc/build-unix.md
index 8ffa4edfa6..e333572017 100644
--- a/doc/build-unix.md
+++ b/doc/build-unix.md
@@ -161,8 +161,7 @@ ZMQ dependencies (provides ZMQ API):
 
     apk add zeromq-dev
 
-User-Space, Statically Defined Tracing (USDT) is not directly compatible on
-Alpine as it uses libc functionality not available on musl.
+User-Space, Statically Defined Tracing (USDT) is not supported or tested on Alpine Linux at this time.
 
 GUI dependencies: