In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps to install and setup systemd-nspawn on the latest version of Elementary OS.
Before proceeding, make sure that you have the following:
First, update the package list on your system by running the following command:
sudo apt-get update
Next, we can install systemd-nspawn by running the following command:
sudo apt-get install systemd-container
This command will install the systemd-container package, which provides the systemd-nspawn binary.
To verify that the installation was successful, you can run the following command to check the version of systemd-nspawn:
systemd-nspawn --version
This will print out the version number of systemd-nspawn installed on your system.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install and setup systemd-nspawn on the latest version of Elementary OS. Now that you have systemd-nspawn installed, you can use it to create and manage lightweight containers on your system.
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