Hi, On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, at 16:55, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:52 PM Andrej Shadura <andre...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, at 16:48, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:46 PM Andrej Shadura <andre...@debian.org> > > > wrote: > > > > Have you tried doing this on a newly installed system? Because that’s > > > > what I did: installed Debian in a VM, installed podman, attempted to > > > > pull an image, got an error. Not much more.
> > Suggested packages: > > containers-storage docker-compose > > Recommended packages: > > buildah fuse-overlayfs slirp4netns catatonit | tini | dumb-init uidmap > > golang-github-containernetworking-plugin-dnsname criu > Have you seen this? There are a bunch of recommended packages that you > don't install. Especially `uidmap`. > It's just fine if you don't install them, then you don't have a > working podman without root. You need to use root to run podman if you > don't install the `uidmap` package. 1) Reinhard says it’s not mandatory, see above. 2) Docker doesn’t require installing anything else to be useful for non-root users, if podman does, it should be in Depends. -- Cheers, Andrej