Ubuntu not having the latest

[tarsil]

When we run sudo apt install podman -y as per instructions, it will install the version 3.4.4 and not the 5.1.0. This is annoying since we can't use the latest features on a ubuntu/debian machine. Homebrew already has it but its hard to make it work on a Debian/Ubuntu/Mint machine. hen can we expect the latest to be available for these?

[afbjorklund]

• How to install podman 4.4 on Ubuntu 22.04? #17362

[afbjorklund]

You also have to build all the dependencies for it.

https://podman.io/docs/installation#building-from-source

[tarsil]

Of course but without it you can't even built it

[tarsil]

@afbjorklund i was able to finally make a build but it's complaining about the conmom but that will be addressed later.

A great way for podman to help solving this issue would be by proving a bash script that basically does the build and setup in one go. At least a lot of people could simply reuse it and go from there without relying on the package manager

[afbjorklund]

There was a Dockerfile instead, since you also need the compilers etc

[tarsil]

But the Dockerfile doesn't natively install podman as majority of the Debian/Ubuntu/similar users need. A simple script would literally do the same job and would be probably the best case. I don't know why the launchpad doesn't have the latest of podman. But even better would be for podman to have a similar download process like docker has (download.podman.io/....).

I fail to understand why if they call it a proper drop in replacement this is not happening