How To Install podman-docker on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install podman-docker on Rocky Linux 8. podman-docker is Emulate Docker CLI using podman

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install podman-docker on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `podman-docker`

This package installs a script named docker that emulates the Docker CLI by executes podman commands, it also creates links between all Docker CLI man pages and podman.

We can use yum or dnf to install podman-docker on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install podman-docker.

Install podman-docker on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install podman-docker using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install podman-docker

Install podman-docker on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install podman-docker using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install podman-docker

How To Uninstall podman-docker on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the podman-docker package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove podman-docker

podman-docker Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/docker
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/podman-docker.conf
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-attach.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-auto-update.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-build.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-commit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-completion.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-container-checkpoint.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-container-cleanup.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-container-exists.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-container-prune.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-container-restore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-container-runlabel.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-container.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-cp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-create.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-diff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-events.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-exec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-export.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-generate-kube.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-generate-systemd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-generate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-healthcheck-run.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-healthcheck.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-history.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-image-diff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-image-exists.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-image-mount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-image-prune.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-image-sign.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-image-tree.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-image-trust.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-image-unmount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-image.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-images.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-import.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-init.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-inspect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-kill.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-load.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-login.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-logout.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-logs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-manifest-add.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-manifest-annotate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-manifest-create.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-manifest-inspect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-manifest-push.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-manifest-remove.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-manifest.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-mount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-network-connect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-network-create.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-network-disconnect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-network-inspect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-network-ls.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-network-reload.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-network-rm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-network.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pause.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-play-kube.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-play.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-create.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-exists.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-inspect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-kill.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-pause.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-prune.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-ps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-restart.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-rm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-start.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-stats.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-stop.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-top.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod-unpause.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pod.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-port.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-ps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-pull.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-push.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-remote.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-rename.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-restart.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-rm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-rmi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-run.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-save.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-search.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-start.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-stats.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-stop.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-system-connection-add.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-system-connection-default.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-system-connection-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-system-connection-remove.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-system-connection-rename.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-system-connection.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-system-df.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-system-migrate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-system-prune.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-system-renumber.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-system-reset.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-system-service.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-system.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-tag.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-top.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-unmount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-unpause.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-unshare.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-untag.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-version.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-volume-create.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-volume-inspect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-volume-ls.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-volume-prune.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-volume-rm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-volume.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker-wait.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/docker.1.gz

References

podman-docker website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install podman-docker on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.