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I've read that docker is not really meant as a way to package a program to deliver to end users, but this seems to be done a lot. There are various pieces of software that I would like to run that have only two alternatives: build from source, or docker. I have podman on my computer (redhat 7.7), but I don't have root access on my computer, and can't seem to get anything to run with podman. Is this something that can be easily set up by my admin (I would need to walk him through this) so I can run these packages?

For example, I download FENICS, run the install script, then fenicsproject run and I get a password prompt: Authentication is required to run programs as a non-logged-in user. Alternately, I run the command (supplied on the downloads page) 

podman run -ti -p 127.0.0.1:8000:8000 -v $(pwd):/home/fenics/shared -w /home/fenics/shared quay.io/fenicsproject/stable:current

and get the same password prompt, though after closing it I also get the error user namespaces are not enabled in /proc/sys/user/max_user_namespaces.

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  • Isnt the main purpose of podman to allow non-root, daemonless docker execution? With the docker cli, you just need to be in the docker group: `sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami)` – DannyB Jan 23 '20 at 16:32
  • possible duplicate: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56296932/run-privileged-podman-without-sudo-and-without-usernamespace – argentum2f Jan 23 '20 at 16:50
  • Also, I found instructions for (I think) setting up things to do what I want: https://podman.io/blogs/2019/10/29/podman-crun-f31.html but it looks like it requires podman > 1.6.2, so I'm guessing I'm out of luck – argentum2f Jan 23 '20 at 16:51

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