How To Install podman-toolbox on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install podman-toolbox on Debian 12.
What is podman-toolbox
podman-toolbox is:
Toolbx is a tool which allows the use of containerised command line environments. It offers a familiar package based environment for developing and debugging software that runs fully unprivileged using Podman.
A toolbx container is a fully mutable container; when you see yum install ansible for example, that’s something you can do inside your toolbx container, without affecting the base operating system.
Toolbx used to be known as Container Toolbox.
There are three methods to install podman-toolbox on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install podman-toolbox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install podman-toolbox using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install podman-toolbox
Install podman-toolbox Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install podman-toolbox using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install podman-toolbox
Install podman-toolbox Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install podman-toolbox using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install podman-toolbox
How To Uninstall podman-toolbox on Debian 12
To uninstall only the podman-toolbox package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove podman-toolbox
Uninstall podman-toolbox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall podman-toolbox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove podman-toolbox
Remove podman-toolbox Configurations and Data
To remove podman-toolbox configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge podman-toolbox
Remove podman-toolbox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove podman-toolbox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge podman-toolbox
Dependencies
podman-toolbox have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install podman-toolbox package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
