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 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 -SyyuOnce all packages are updated, proceed to install Podman on Arch Linux / Manjaro.
sudo pacman -S podmanYou 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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