How To Install Podman on Arch Linux / Manjaro

In this guide, you will learn how to Install Podman on Arch Linux / Manjaro.  Podman is a command line tool for creating and maintaining Linux containers. It is part of the libpod library. Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System. The major difference between Docker and Podman is that there is no daemon in Podman.

We had covered installation of Podman on CentOS / Fedora & Ubuntu. See below guides.

How To Install Podman on CentOS 7 & Fedora

How to Install Podman on Ubuntu

Install Podman on Debian

Install Podman on CentOS / RHEL 8

For Arch Linux and its derivatives, the installation a bit straightforward since all packages are available on upstream repositories.

Install Podman on Arch Linux / Manjaro

Update your Arch / Manjaro system.

sudo pacman -Syyu

Once all packages are updated, proceed to install Podman on Arch Linux / Manjaro.

sudo pacman -S podman

You should get output similar to below.

....................................................................................
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (6) cni-plugins-0.8.1-1  conmon-1:0.3.0-1  ostree-2019.2-1  skopeo-0.1.37-1  slirp4netns-0.3.0-1  podman-1.4.2-1

Total Download Size:    31.90 MiB
Total Installed Size:  186.47 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
 cni-plugins-0.8.1-1-x86_64                                       8.8 MiB   179K/s 00:50 [###################################################] 100%
 conmon-1:0.3.0-1-x86_64                                         21.0 KiB  1615K/s 00:00 [###################################################] 100%
 skopeo-0.1.37-1-x86_64                                           4.6 MiB   496K/s 00:09 [###################################################] 100%
 slirp4netns-0.3.0-1-x86_64                                      62.3 KiB  15.2M/s 00:00 [###################################################] 100%
 podman-1.4.2-1-x86_64     18.4 MiB   464K/s 00:41 [###############] 100%(6/6) checking keys in keyring                     [###############] 100%(6/6) checking package integrity                   [###############] 100%
(6/6) loading package files                        [###############] 100%
(6/6) checking for file conflicts                  [###############] 100%
(6/6) checking available disk space                [###############] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/6) installing cni-plugins                       [###############] 100%
(2/6) installing conmon                            [###############] 100%
(3/6) installing ostree                            [###############] 100%
(4/6) installing skopeo                            [###############] 100%
(5/6) installing slirp4netns                       [###############] 100%
(6/6) installing podman                            [###############] 100%
Optional dependencies for podman
    podman-docker: for Docker-compatible CLI
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/4) Updating linux initcpios...
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 5.1.3-arch1-1-ARCH
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 5.1.3-arch1-1-ARCH
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
(2/4) Reloading system manager configuration...
(3/4) Creating temporary files...
(4/4) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...

Confirm version of Podman installed.

$ podman --version
podman version 1.4.2

$ pacman -Qi podman
 Name            : podman
 Version         : 1.4.2-1
 Description     : Tool and library for running OCI-based containers in pods
 Architecture    : x86_64
 URL             : https://github.com/containers/libpod
 Licenses        : Apache
 Groups          : None
 Provides        : None
 Depends On      : cni-plugins  conmon  device-mapper  iptables  libseccomp  ostree  runc  skopeo  btrfs-progs  slirp4netns
 Optional Deps   : podman-docker: for Docker-compatible CLI
 Required By     : None
 Optional For    : None
 Conflicts With  : None
 Replaces        : None
 Installed Size  : 96.95 MiB
 Packager        : Bartłomiej Piotrowski [email protected]
 Build Date      : Sun 23 Jun 2019 10:40:38 AM EAT
 Install Date    : Tue 25 Jun 2019 11:54:16 PM EAT
 Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
 Install Script  : No
 Validated By    : Signature

For a detailed output, run:

$ sudo podman info
host:
  BuildahVersion: 1.9.0
  Conmon:
    package: Unknown
    path: /usr/bin/conmon
    version: 'conmon version 0.3.0, commit: 8455ce1ef385120deb827d0f0588c04357bad4c4'
  Distribution:
    distribution: arch
    version: unknown
  MemFree: 665116672
  MemTotal: 16717189120
  OCIRuntime:
    package: Unknown
    path: /usr/bin/runc
    version: |-
      runc version 1.0.0-rc8
      commit: 425e105d5a03fabd737a126ad93d62a9eeede87f
      spec: 1.0.1-dev
  SwapFree: 8479567872
  SwapTotal: 8489267200
  arch: amd64
  cpus: 8
  hostname: techwiz.localhost
  kernel: 5.1.3-arch1-1-ARCH
  os: linux
  rootless: false
  uptime: 14h 44m 47.28s (Approximately 0.58 days)
registries:
  blocked: null
  insecure: null
  search:
  - docker.io
  - registry.fedoraproject.org
  - quay.io
  - registry.access.redhat.com
  - registry.centos.org
store:
  ConfigFile: /etc/containers/storage.conf
  ContainerStore:
    number: 0
  GraphDriverName: overlay
  GraphOptions:
  - overlay.mountopt=nodev
  GraphRoot: /var/lib/containers/storage
  GraphStatus:
    Backing Filesystem: extfs
    Native Overlay Diff: "false"
    Supports d_type: "true"
    Using metacopy: "true"
  ImageStore:
    number: 0
  RunRoot: /var/run/containers/storage
  VolumePath: /var/lib/containers/storage/volumes

Test Podman installation on Arch Linux / Manjaro

Let’s confirm that podman is working on our Arch Linux / Manjaro system.

— Pull Alpine Linux docker image.

$ podman pull alpine
Trying to pull docker.io/library/alpine...Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 921b31ab772b done
Copying config 4d90542f06 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
4d90542f0623c71f1f9c11be3da23167174ac9d93731cf91912922e916bab02c

— List Downloaded images:

$ podman images
REPOSITORY                 TAG      IMAGE ID       CREATED      SIZE
docker.io/library/alpine   latest   4d90542f0623   6 days ago   5.85 MB

— Run alpine image container to test our installation.

$ podman run --name test --rm docker.io/library/alpine "cat" etc/os-release
NAME="Alpine Linux"
ID=alpine
VERSION_ID=3.10.0
PRETTY_NAME="Alpine Linux v3.10"
HOME_URL="https://alpinelinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.alpinelinux.org/"

For more reading, check How To run Docker Containers using Podman and Libpod

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