Everything everywhere, all at once. Frustrated by an app’s absent or lagging support for your preferred distro? Like magic, Distrobox runs applications from different Linux distributions right on your Linux computer. They’re running on your computer, yet they’re in their own native distribution. I will show you how it works.
Link:
Distrobox website – https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/compatibility.md#containers-distros
Commands:
sudo apt install docker.io
sudo dnf install docker
sudo pacman -S docker
sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
sudo apt install distrobox
sudo dnf install distrobox
sudo pacman -S distrobox
distrobox create -i quay.io/toolbx-images/archlinux-toolbox:latest -n “Arch-Db-1”
distrobox enter Arch-Db-1
sudo pacman -S neofetch
sudo pacman -S firefox
distrobox-enter -T -n Arch-Db-1 — “firefox”
distrobox stop Arch-Db-1
distrobox list
distrobox rm OpenSuse-1
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:23 Installing Docker
4:09 Installing Distrobox
5:17 Creating a Distrobox Container
14:07 Using Apps inside a Container on the Host
14:47 Using Graphical Apps Inside a Container on the Host
17:09 Other Useful Commands
18:24 End screen
What you’ll learn:
1. How to Install Distrobox
a. How to use docker
b. How to install docker on your computer
2. Installing Docker
a. How to install docker on major repositories distribution
b. How to download and install docker on Ubuntu
c. How to download and install docker on Fedora
d. How to download and install docker on Manjaro
e. How to create a user group and add yourself to that group
f. How to use Docker in a rootless fashion
g. How to create the group with groupadd command
h. How to add you to that group, using the usermod command
i. How to activate your group membership
3. Installing Distrobox
a. How to download and install distrobox on Ubuntu
b. How to download and install distrobox Fedora
c. How to download and install distrobox Manjaro
4. Creating a Distrobox Container
a. How to create a container
b. How to download image file
c. How to create an Arch Linux container
d. How to use Distrobox create command to create a container
e. How to tell Distrobox which image to use
f. How to sets a name for the container
g. How to download the image to your computer
h. How to use the Distrobox enter command to launch and enter the new Arch Linux container
i. How to enter Arch Linux container
5. Using Apps inside a Container on the Host
a. How to use the Arch package manager, pacman, to install neofetch inside a container on the host
b. How to install any application in the container, either from the Arch repositories or from the AUR, and run them on our host computer
6. Using Graphical Apps Inside a Container on the Host
a. How to install and run an application inside Arch container
b. How to start the program from outside the container, from our host computer’s command prompt
c. How to supresses the creation of a new terminal window
d. How to tell Distrobox which container to look inside for the command
7. Other Useful Commands
a. How To exit from a container
b. How to shut down the container
c. How to use the stop command
d. How to remove or delete a container using distrobox rm command
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