Installing Podman Desktop from a Flatpak bundle

Consider installing a Flatpak bundle rather than from Flathub when:

• You cannot use Flathub.
• You want to install an unreleased version.

Prerequisites

• Flatpak
• Podman stable version

Procedure

1. Download the Flatpak bundle to a $HOME/Downloads/podman-desktop-<version>.flatpak file from:

   • Downloads page

   • Git repository release assets

2. Install Podman Desktop from the downloaded Flatpak bundle:

   $ flatpak install --user $HOME/Downloads/podman-desktop-<version>.flatpak

Verification

• Open Podman Desktop from a terminal:

  $ flatpak run io.podman_desktop.PodmanDesktop

Additional resources

• Using Flatpak

Next steps

• Getting started.