Podman: How to install podman by itself binares ?

[oldthreefeng]

Is there any official binaries registry for podman?

[Luap99]

Install instructions can be found here: https://podman.io/getting-started/installation

[zhangguanzhang]

Install instructions can be found here: https://podman.io/getting-started/installation

What he means is to directly copy the relevant binary files for installation without the system's own package management

[mheon]

It's very difficult to install Podman proper without packages due to the number of binaries involved - Podman, Conmon, the CNI plugins (for root), slirp4netns and fuse-overlayfs (rootless) would be the minimum install.

[oldthreefeng]

nothing is difficult if you have a great makefile !

[rhatdan]

Don't forget runc/crun for an oci runtime.

[rhatdan]

Sure if you want to suck out about 7 different git repositories and build all of these different tools, then create config for the tool, which usually comes from containers-common.

[zhangguanzhang]

maybe useful from https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/8788

[afbjorklund]

Sure if you want to suck out about 7 different git repositories and build all of these different tools, then create config for the tool, which usually comes from containers-common.

This is what cri-o is doing at the moment.

[oldthreefeng]

@afbjorklund great job!!

[afbjorklund]

great job!!

I'm not super-convinced myself that fully static binaries is the way to go, just pointing out that there _are_ already the Nix binaries...

It also lacks documentation, on how to install and use these static binaries ? I don't think CRI-O is doing a great job of that, either.

Personally, I prefer "sudo yum install podman".

But static binaries comes in handy too, sometimes.