Table of Contents
- Commands
- Create Distrobox container
- Export Distrobox container
- Import Distrobox container
- Arch Linux GUI fix
https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
Needs Podman or Docker installed
Commands
distrobox-create
- creates the containerdistrobox-enter
- to enter the containerdistrobox-list
- to list containers created with distroboxdistrobox-rm
- to delete a container created with distroboxdistrobox-stop
- to stop a running container created with distroboxdistrobox-init
- the entrypoint of the container (not meant to be used manually)distrobox-export
- it is meant to be used inside the container, useful to export apps and services from the container to the hostpodman system df -v
- check space used by containers
Create Distrobox container
distrobox-create --name <NAME> --image <DISTRO>:<TAG>
- ex.
distrobox-create --name ubuntu-22 --image ubuntu:22.04
- ex.
distrobox-create --name fedora-35 --image fedora:35
- ex.
distrobox-create --name arch-toolbox --image archlinux
- ex.
Export Distrobox container
podman container commit -p distrobox_name image_name_you_choose
podman save image_name_you_choose:latest | gzip > image_name_you_choose.tar.gz
# Example
# podman container commit -p arch-toolbox arch-toolbox-2022-05-03
# podman save arch-toolbox-2022-05-03:latest | gzip > arch-toolbox-2022-05-03.tar.gz
Import Distrobox container
podman load < image_name_you_choose.tar.gz
distrobox create --image image_name_you_choose:latest --name distrobox_name
distrobox enter --name distrobox_name
# Example
# podman load < arch-toolbox-2022-05-03.tar.gz
# distrobox create --image arch-toolbox-2022-05-03:latest --name arch-toolbox
# distrobox enter --name arch-toolbox
Arch Linux GUI fix
- Install xhost:
pacman -S xorg-xhost
- Allow access:
xhost +si:localuser:$USER