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 or Ubuntu. See below guides.
- Install Podman on CentOS 7 and 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 -Sy archlinux-keyring
sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux
sudo pacman -SyyuIf upgrades include new kernel consider doing a system reboot.
sudo rebootOnce all packages are updated, proceed to install Podman on Arch Linux / Manjaro.
sudo pacman -Syy podmanChoose oci runtime provider:
:: There are 2 providers available for oci-runtime:
:: Repository extra
1) crun 2) runc
Enter a number (default=1):Accept package installation prompt:
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Total Download Size: 34.87 MiB
Total Installed Size: 127.81 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] yValidate installation succeded.
Optional dependencies for nftables
python: Python bindings [installed]
(14/18) installing criu [########################################################################] 100%
(15/18) installing crun [########################################################################] 100%
(16/18) installing libslirp [########################################################################] 100%
(17/18) installing slirp4netns [########################################################################] 100%
(18/18) installing podman [########################################################################] 100%
Optional dependencies for podman
apparmor: for AppArmor support
btrfs-progs: support btrfs backend devices
netavark: for a new container-network-stack implementation [installed]
podman-compose: for docker-compose compatibility
podman-docker: for Docker-compatible CLI
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/3) Reloading system manager configuration...
(2/3) Creating temporary files...
(3/3) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...Install fuse-overlayfs dependency:
sudo pacman -S fuse-overlayfsConfirm version of Podman installed.
$ podman --version
podman version 5.1.2
$ pacman -Qi podman
Name : podman
Version : 5.1.2-1
Description : Tool and library for running OCI-based containers in pods
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/containers/podman
Licenses : Apache-2.0
Groups : None
Provides : None
...For a detailed output, run:
podman infoTest 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
Resolved "alpine" as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/00-shortnames.conf)
Trying to pull docker.io/library/alpine:latest...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 7264a8db6415 done
Copying config 7e01a0d0a1 done
Writing manifest to image destination
7e01a0d0a1dcd9e539f8e9bbd80106d59efbdf97293b3d38f5d7a34501526cdb— 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/"Podman CLI reference (Bonus)
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| Podman Basics | |
podman version | Display Podman version information |
podman info | Display Podman system information |
podman help | Display help information about Podman commands |
| Image Management | |
podman images | List all images |
podman pull <image> | Pull an image from a registry |
podman push <image> | Push an image to a registry |
podman rmi <image> | Remove an image |
podman build -t <tag> <path> | Build an image from a Dockerfile |
| Container Lifecycle Management | |
podman ps | List running containers |
podman ps -a | List all containers |
podman run <image> | Run a new container from an image |
podman run -it <image> | Run a new container in interactive mode |
podman exec -it <container> <command> | Execute a command in a running container |
podman start <container> | Start a stopped container |
podman stop <container> | Stop a running container |
podman restart <container> | Restart a running container |
podman rm <container> | Remove a container |
For more reading, check How To run Docker Containers using Podman and Libpod
