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.

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        : 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

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