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Fedora 35 reached End of Life on 13th December 2022: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/eol/ https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/1237
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## NAME
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toolbox - Tool for containerized command line environments on Linux
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## SYNOPSIS
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**toolbox** [*--assumeyes* | *-y*]
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[*--help* | *-h*]
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[*--log-level LEVEL*]
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[*--log-podman*]
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[*--verbose* | *-v*]
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*COMMAND* [*ARGS*...]
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## DESCRIPTION
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Toolbox is a tool for Linux operating systems, which allows the use of
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containerized command line environments. It is built on top of Podman and
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other standard container technologies from OCI.
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This is particularly useful on OSTree based operating systems like Fedora
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CoreOS and Silverblue. The intention of these systems is to discourage
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installation of software on the host, and instead install software as (or in)
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containers — they mostly don't even have package managers like DNF or YUM.
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This makes it difficult to set up a development environment or install tools
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for debugging in the usual way.
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Toolbox solves this problem by providing a fully mutable container within
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which one can install their favourite development and debugging tools, editors
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and SDKs. For example, it's possible to do `yum install ansible` without
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affecting the base operating system.
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However, this tool doesn't *require* using an OSTree based system. It works
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equally well on Fedora Workstation and Server, and that's a useful way to
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incrementally adopt containerization.
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The toolbox environment is based on an OCI image. On Fedora this is the
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`fedora-toolbox` image. This image is used to create a toolbox container that
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seamlessly integrates with the rest of the operating system by providing
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access to the user's home directory, the Wayland and X11 sockets, networking
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(including Avahi), removable devices (like USB sticks), systemd journal, SSH
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agent, D-Bus, ulimits, /dev and the udev database, etc..
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## Supported operating system distributions
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By default, Toolbox tries to use an image matching the host operating system
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distribution for creating containers. If the host is not supported, then it
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falls back to a Fedora image. Supported host operating systems are:
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* Fedora
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* Red Hat Enterprise Linux >= 8.5
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However, it's possible to create containers for a different distribution
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through the use of the `--distro` and `--release` options that are accepted by
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the relevant commands, or their counterparts in the configuration file. The
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`--distro` flag specifies the name of the distribution, and `--release`
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specifies its version. Supported combinations are:
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Distro |Release
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-------|----------
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fedora |\<release\> or f\<release\> eg., 36 or f36
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rhel |\<major\>.\<minor\> eg., 8.5
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## GLOBAL OPTIONS ##
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The following options are understood:
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**--assumeyes, -y**
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Automatically answer yes for all questions.
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**--help, -h**
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Print a synopsis of this manual and exit.
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**--log-level**=*level*
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Log messages above specified level: debug, info, warn, error, fatal or panic
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(default: error)
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**--log-podman**
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Show log messages of invocations of Podman based on the logging level specified
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by option **log-level**.
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**--verbose, -v**
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Same as `--log-level=debug`. Use `-vv` to include `--log-podman`.
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## COMMANDS
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Commands for working with toolbox containers and images:
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**toolbox-create(1)**
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Create a new toolbox container.
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**toolbox-enter(1)**
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Enter a toolbox container for interactive use.
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**toolbox-help(1)**
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Display help information about Toolbox.
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**toolbox-init-container(1)**
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Initialize a running container.
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**toolbox-list(1)**
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List existing toolbox containers and images.
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**toolbox-rm(1)**
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Remove one or more toolbox containers.
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**toolbox-rmi(1)**
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Remove one or more toolbox images.
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**toolbox-run(1)**
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Run a command in an existing toolbox container.
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## FILES ##
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**toolbox.conf(5)**
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Toolbox configuration file.
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## SEE ALSO
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`podman(1)`, https://github.com/containers/toolbox
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