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How To Install Podman on Arch Linux / Manjaro

Introduction:

Podman provides a great way instead of Dockers to develop, manage and run OCI containers on your Linux System. It runs without the daemon process. Let’s move towards the Installation of Podman on Arch Linux / manjaro. The installation process would be easy as the packages are available on upstream repositories.

Installing Podman on Arch Linux / Manjaro

Firstly, update your Arch / Manjaro system.

sudo pacman -Syyu

After the packages are updated, proceed to Install Podman on your Linux system.

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sudo pacman -S podman

Output:

 …………………………………………………………………………
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…

You can confirm the Installation of podman by checking it’s version

$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 : BartÅ‚omiej 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

If you want to know in more details you can run the following command

$ 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

Testing Podman on Arch Linux / Manjaro

Download the 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

You can list your downloaded images by running

podman images

Now, run the 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/"

To know in more details follow the link below

How To Run Docker Containers using Podman & Libpod

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