Has anyone been able to play with distrobox in slackware?
I'm trying to create some containers using alienbob's docker packages as a backend for distrobox but i keep getting these error when executing distrobox-enter
and variations with /tmp and other system paths.
Docker itself runs okay and googling for the errors only gives me some very specific kubernetes threads which don't help much.

For anyone not aware of distrobox, it's a sort of container manager acting on top of docker or podman that makes it easy to install and run software from other distributions, more info here https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

Check https://github.com/89luca89/distrobo...-shared-mounts

Thanks Windu, unfortunately the suggested solution is not working for me.
I ran the command "mount --make-rshared /" and also added it to my rc.local, but distrobox keeps spitting the same errors.
I verified that my root filesystem is indeed mounted as shared mount using this:
result:

Pardon my necroposting, but I was struggling with the same issue, and what fixed it, was installing podman locally (on user level).

Here's the guide: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobo...-static-manner

It might also be just more secure, since containers run as a regular user then.

If you'd want to have distrobox as a Slackware package, I made a SlackBuild for that: https://github.com/laniusone/slackbu...ster/distrobox

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Thank you!! I was thinking about experimenting with podman since I had no luck using docker, but couldn't find the time do it

Happy to help!