[Documentation provided] How to install on Ubuntu 24.04?

[SamuelMarks]

Q: How do I install on Ubuntu 24.04

Install fails with apt install podman; and besides that an old version https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/podman

A: Solution

$ sudo apt install qemu-utils qemu-system-x86
$ curl -OL https://github.com/containers/gvisor-tap-vsock/releases/download/v0.7.3/gvproxy-linux-amd64
# ^ or a newer from https://github.com/containers/gvisor-tap-vsock/releases
$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/podman
$ sudo install -m 0755 gvproxy-linux-amd64 /usr/local/lib/podman/gvproxy
$ curl -OL https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/download/v5.1.1/podman-remote-static-linux_amd64.tar.gz
# ^ or a newer from https://github.com/containers/podman/releases
$ tar xf podman-remote-static-linux_amd64.tar.gz
$ mv bin/* # choose a binary directory in your PATH as the destination

Then you should be able to run these two without error:

$ podman machine init
$ podman machine start

[afbjorklund]

The last command needs to rename bin/podman-remote-static-linux_amd64 to podman, the same way as with gvproxy?

Or just keep the real name "podman-remote-static", if you want to use "podman" and "podman-remote" from the system.

• Using Podman Desktop on Linux with newer version in Podman Machine podman-desktop/podman-desktop#5762

• How to install podman 4.4 on Ubuntu 22.04? #17362

[afbjorklund]

Install fails with apt install podman

This should be reported to Ubuntu

[SamuelMarks]

$ sudo apt install podman
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package podman is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'podman' has no installation candidate

[afbjorklund]

Weird, it seems to resolve just fine from a docker.io/library/ubuntu:24.04 container

root@800f6dbb0b2d:/# apt-cache madison podman
    podman | 4.9.3+ds1-1build2 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages

[SamuelMarks]

Confirmed it's not on a 20.04 box also

[afbjorklund]

It was not included in 20.04, only in 20.10

[jdkruzr]

anyone know how to get Podman 5 installed on 24.04?

[afbjorklund]

There are some links above, you can install it in a virtual machine (like on macOS or Windows) or you can build it from source.

[GongT]

This guy has compiled one: https://github.com/mgoltzsche/podman-static

[freesocket]

Or install Incus - https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/installing/.
Then install fedora/40.
Fedora 40 has podman-5.2.2-1.fc40 up to date package.
In the Fedora container install podman.

One bonus if you use Ubuntu and Incus with zfs is automatic compression, saving disk space.
(For e.g. one of my test containers (Debian), "zfs get compressratio Data/rpool/incus/containers/pod-1, Data/rpool/incus/containers/pod-1 compressratio 2.24x").

With systemcontainers You also get more portability. I usually just blow my Ubuntu installation, install a fresh Ubuntu, then install necessary packages (e.g. Incus, etc), then import the zpool with data and containers. The os you can always replace, but data is more important.