# Ditrobox ignores local podman image (toolbox is fine with it)

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**Created:** [September 25, 2024, 10:49am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/ditrobox-ignores-local-podman-image-toolbox-is-fine-with-it/4250 "2024-09-25T10:49:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 10:28pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/ditrobox-ignores-local-podman-image-toolbox-is-fine-with-it/4250/2 "2024-09-25T22:28:56Z")

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Wasted a lot of time on this, but here’s the culprit:

```auto
❯ cat /etc/distrobox/distrobox.conf 
container_always_pull="1"
container_generate_entry=1
container_manager="podman"
container_name_default="ubuntu"
container_image_default="ghcr.io/ublue-os/ubuntu-toolbox:latest"
non_interactive="1"

```

It seems to me that `container_always_pull="1"` was the reason for this. I guess the default configuration is to force-pull? I don’t know why this is so…

Anyway, to get around this, I used the relevant environment variable:

```auto
DBX_CONTAINER_ALWAYS_PULL=0 DBX_CONTAINER_MANAGER=podman distrobox create -n test --image localhost/mybox:latest

```

Hopefully this saves someone some time…

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