How to develop penpot with podman (penpotman)

Troubleshooting
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Thank you for sharing this!

I confirm that Penpot on Podman (Penpotman) works on Windows 10.

Here are the instructions:

Tools needed:

Steps

  1. Download Podman Desktop exe.

  2. Download podman from podman (there should be a prompt in Podman → see screenshot below):

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  3. Run pip3 install podman-compose from the command prompt.

  4. Create a folder on your PC for Penpot.

  5. Launch the command prompt from the file explorer by typing cmd in the address bar.

  6. In the command prompt, type the following to clone the repo to your PC:
    git clone https://github.com/penpot/penpot.git

  7. Run podman-compose on the Penpot docker file. Go into the ~/penpot/docker/images directory, and run podman-compose.

    cd penpot/docker/images
    podman-compose -p penpot -f docker-compose.yaml up -d

  8. Go to http://localhost:9001 to create an account and access Penpot.

  9. To re-access your Penpot site after you’ve restarted your computer: go to “Containers”, select your image, and hit the play icon “Start Compose” and return to your localhost site

podman desktop screenshot with "Start compose" icon circled in red
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To update

See my next comment

Creating shortcuts

Create a new shortcut with the followingtarget:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k podman-compose -p penpot -f docker-compose.yaml up -d & explorer "http://localhost:9001"

Optional: change the icon to penpot’s ico
Open the properties for the shortcut, and change “Shortcut” > “Start in” field to the location of your images folder:

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Optional: change the icon to penpot’s

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