Rolfe Dlugy-Hegwer

Tag: containers

  • “podman is already the newest version”, but I’m still getting “Command ‘podman’ not found”

    “podman is already the newest version”, but I’m still getting “Command ‘podman’ not found”

    Problem and solution

    Problem: After installing podman, I my sistem can’t find it:

    $ podman

Command 'podman' not found, did you mean:

  command 'pod2man' from deb perl (5.30.0-9ubuntu0.2)

Try: sudo apt install <deb name>

    Uninstalling and reinstalling podman in a variety of ways didn’t didn’t fix the problem. The output always included a podman is already the newest version statement:

    $ sudo apt install podman
[sudo] password for rolfedh:        
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
podman is already the newest version (100:3.4.2-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

    Solution: Finally, I found one particular way of reinstalling podman that worked:

    $ sudo apt-get install podman --reinstall
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/17.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 472048 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../podman_100%3a3.4.2-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking podman (100:3.4.2-1) over (100:3.4.2-1) ...
Setting up podman (100:3.4.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...

    Now, podman just works. For example:

    $ podman
Error: missing command 'podman COMMAND'
Try 'podman --help' for more information.

    Side note: Why am I installing podman?

    I’m evaluating Nigel Pouton’s “Quick Start Kubernetes” book as a team training tool. Nigel’s great story-telling skills make learning kubernetes fun. He cuts away the fluff and really tells you the important things in a very engaging way.

    Although his website offers a variety of purchase options, I’ve had trouble getting or updating to the latest 2022 edition on Amazon Kindle. Therefore, I strongly recommend purchasing the book on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/quickstartkubernetes (this is not an affiliate link) where you can always get the latest edition.