How To Install podman on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install podman on Ubuntu.
What is podman
podman is:
Podman is an engine for running OCI-based containers in Pods. Podman provides a CLI interface for managing Pods, Containers, and Container Images.
At a high level, the scope of libpod and podman is the following:
- Support multiple image formats including the OCI and Docker image formats.
- Support for multiple means to download images including trust & image verification.
- Container image management (managing image layers, overlay filesystems, etc).
- Full management of container lifecycle.
- Support for pods to manage groups of containers together.
- Resource isolation of containers and pods.
- Support for a Docker-compatible CLI interface through Podman.
Podman is a daemon-less alternative to Docker.
There are three methods to install podman on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install podman Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install podman using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install podman
Install podman Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install podman using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install podman
Install podman Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install podman using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install podman
How To Uninstall podman on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the podman package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove podman
Uninstall podman And Its Dependencies
To uninstall podman and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove podman
Remove podman Configurations and Data
To remove podman configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge podman
Remove podman configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove podman configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge podman
Dependencies
podman have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install podman package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.