Podman installation for Latex

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Hi,

I’ve just updated Indico, but I’m not very comfortable installing Podman and running a container on the VM where it’s currently installed (it only has 2 cores and 4 GB of RAM).
Is the update enough, or is the container required for it to work properly?

Thanks

Juan

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Using podman for this adds basically no overhead. Unlike Docker, there is no background daemon or anything else persistent. So wrt the memory consumption I’d expect it to be no different from running texlive outside a container, except that doing it outside is much more risky.

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Thanks,

I went ahead and installed Podman anyway, and it seems to be working fine.

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Told you… :wink:

You can actually remove the regular TeXLive installation (rm -rf /opt/texlive) now to save some disk space.