How To Install podman-catatonit on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install podman-catatonit on CentOS 8.
What is podman-catatonit
Catatonit is a /sbin/init program for use within containers. It forwards (almost) all signals to the spawned child, tears down the container when the spawned child exits, and otherwise cleans up other exited processes (zombies). This is a reimplementation of other container init programs (such as “tini” or “dumb-init”), but uses modern Linux facilities (such as signalfd(2)) and has no additional features.
We can use yum or dnf to install podman-catatonit on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install podman-catatonit.
Install podman-catatonit on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install podman-catatonit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install podman-catatonit
Install podman-catatonit on CentOS 8 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install podman-catatonit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install podman-catatonit
How To Uninstall podman-catatonit on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the podman-catatonit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove podman-catatonit
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install podman-catatonit on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.