Installing systemd-nspawn on Elementary OS

In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps to install and setup systemd-nspawn on the latest version of Elementary OS.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding, make sure that you have the following:

Step 1: Update packages

First, update the package list on your system by running the following command:

sudo apt-get update

Step 2: Install systemd-nspawn

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.

Step 3: Verify the installation

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.

Conclusion

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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