In this tutorial, we will guide you through the step-by-step process of installing Podman on Arch Linux. Podman is a container engine designed to make it easier to manage and run containers on your Linux system.
Before we get started, you need to make sure that your system is up-to-date and that you have sudo privileges.
Podman is available in the Arch Linux repositories, which makes installation very easy. To install Podman, simply run the following command:
sudo pacman -S podman
The Pacman package manager will download and install all the necessary files for Podman.
Once Podman is installed, you can test it by running the following command:
podman info
This command will display the version, API version, and other information about Podman.
By default, Podman will store its data in the /var/lib/containers directory. If you would like to change the location of this directory, you can do so by creating a new configuration file.
Create a new configuration file by running the following command:
sudo mkdir -p /etc/containers/
sudo nano /etc/containers/storage.conf
In the file, you can set the storage driver, storage options, and the directory where the data is stored. For example, if you’d like to use the OverlayFS storage driver and store the data in the /mnt/data/podman directory, your configuration file might look like this:
[storage]
driver = "overlay"
runroot = "/run/user/1000"
graphroot = "/mnt/data/podman"
Save the configuration file and exit.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Podman on Arch Linux. Once installed, you can use Podman to manage and run containers on your Linux system. Podman is a powerful tool that can help streamline your containerization workflow, and we encourage you to explore its capabilities further.
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