podman fails to install on Ubuntu 22.04.3

[jacobwdv]

Issue Description

following directions on this site: https://podman.io/docs/installation

installing podman on Ubuntu 22.04 should be as easy as

# Ubuntu 20.10 and newer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install podman

But on my system, which is a newly deployed Ubuntu VM, I get the following error:

root@scarred1:~# sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [119 kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease [109 kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [110 kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages [1,014 kB]
Fetched 1,352 kB in 1s (961 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
root@scarred1:~# sudo apt-get -y install podman
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package podman is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'podman' has no installation candidate

OS Info:

root@scarred1:~# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.3 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

Steps to reproduce the issue

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get -y install podman

Describe the results you received

podman is not installable.

Describe the results you expected

podman to be installed

podman info output

root@scarred1:~# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.3 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

Podman in a container

No

Privileged Or Rootless

Privileged

Upstream Latest Release

Yes

Additional environment details

Additional environment details

Additional information

Additional information like issue happens only occasionally or issue happens with a particular architecture or on a particular setting

[afbjorklund]

It is available in the "universe" (not in "main"), but should be enabled by default ?

https://packages.ubuntu.com/podman

It means that it is unsupported by Ubuntu, and will not receive security updates...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

[rhatdan]

This is not an upstream issue.

[jacobwdv]

Could we update the steps in the installation guide for Ubuntu with ones that work? The site shows the steps I followed and says the package is available in official repositories for Ubuntu 20.10. Maybe it is available but it can't be installed by the steps printed.. Has anyone successfully installed on 22.04.3? if so, how?

[jacobwdv]

The additional step would be to enable 'universe'. This command does it: sudo add-apt-repository universe

[afbjorklund]

You can make a PR for the documentation, to suggest adding that line. It should not hurt, if already enabled.

$ sudo add-apt-repository universe
'universe' distribution component is already enabled for all sources.

https://github.com/containers/podman.io/blob/main/docs/installation.md