podman rootless fails with "newuidmap": executable file not found in $PATH

[klay]

Using release Armbian_23.5.1_Rpi4b_jammy_current_6.1.29 on a Raspberry Pi 4b. From a clean install:
 

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
$ sudo apt install podman
$ podman run --rm docker.io/library/hello-world
Error: command required for rootless mode with multiple IDs: exec: "newuidmap": executable file not found in $PATH

 

Podman runs fine with sudo, so for now I can use that as a workaround, but it would be nice to run rootless containers for dev environments.

There is a related issue on the official podman repo, but the solutions there don't seem to apply to armbian. https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/9271

[Igor]

Try this https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/2211

[klay]

Thank you Igor, that worked! The complete fix was as simple as:

 

sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/containers
sudo apt install podman uidmap slirp4netns

 

and now I can run rootless containers with podman!

[Igor]

46 minutes ago, klay said:

and now I can run rootless containers with podman!

Great! I think uidmap package can probably be added to the default package base. Contribution should be trivial:
https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/main/config/cli (need to be checked if exists everywhere - probably it does)

https://docs.armbian.com/Process_Contribute/