[gucci-on-fleek]

They publish statically-linked binaries on GitHub [0], so to install it, you just need to download and unpack a single file. But you don't get any automatic updates like you would if they provided an apt repository.

[0]: https://github.com/containers/podman/releases

[throwaway127482]

Aren't the statically linked binaries just the remote client? i.e. they can't run containers on their own, right?

In the past I think I wound up using https://github.com/mgoltzsche/podman-static because I could not get those podman static binaries to work

[rsyring]

Wow! I can't believe I missed that. Thanks.

[rsyring]

Apparently, I didn't miss anything after all. :(

See sibling comment above about them being just remote binaries.

[Eduard]

how come there is no podman Linux installer?

[gucci-on-fleek]

Well all the downstream distros have their own installers (apt, dnf, pacman, etc.). If you're compiling from source, then "make install" [0] should work as expected, and if you're downloading the pre-built binaries from GitHub [1], you just need to copy a single statically-linked binary into "/usr/local/bin".

[0]: https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/c8183c50/Makefile#...

[1]: https://github.com/containers/podman/releases

[xylophile]

You mean curl?