Installing Podman Desktop from a compressed tar file

Consider installing from an archive rather than from Flathub, or from a Flatpak bundle when:

• You cannot use Flatpak.
• You install in a restricted environment.

Prerequisites

• Podman stable version

Procedure

1. Download the podman-desktop-<version>.tar.gz archive from the Git repository release assets.
2. Extract the content.
3. Go to the extracted directory.
4. Double-click on the podman-desktop executable file.

Next steps

• Getting started