Using exported binaries from podman and docker

Bluefin
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Hi!

I’m a new user of Bluefin Linux and until now I’m enjoying it very much.
I have some issues though, and I’d like some guidance from other more experienced users.

Specifically I’d like to know whether its possible to have exported binaries (or apps) with distrobox-export from both podman and docker and use them both at your host.

I’ve enabled docker and have created a erlang/elixir fedora-based distrobox with the aid of @klmcw’s tutorial because I’ve wanted also .devcontainer support with vscode.

But using an env variable like export DBX_CONTAINER_MANAGER=docker in ~/.bashrc breaks my other exported binaries from my podman containers.

It’s maybe a silly question, but have in mind that I’m new to all this…

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Not sure with ‘distrobox’, but you can do this with docker (and probabablt podman.)

IRRC, you can stop your container, export/archive the image to a archive format (I forget which ones it supports) and then import that archived image into some other docker/podman setup.

If this is in line with what you want,

example:

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/archiving-a-docker-image-to-us-01C9PEm1TQa3wUhZ9yI1oQ

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Please note I have submitted a patch to the distrobox project as a question to seek their advice about this. I believe it is a design gap. But do not want to make that assumption yet.

FYI