Podman reports error with Docker registry while pulling mariadb

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I am trying to install mariadb/server from Podman as instructed here. But I keep running into the following error:

username $ podman pull mariadb/server
✔ registry.fedoraproject.org/mariadb/server:latest
Trying to pull registry.fedoraproject.org/mariadb/server:latest...
Error: initializing source docker://registry.fedoraproject.org/mariadb/server:latest: reading manifest latest in registry.fedoraproject.org/mariadb/server: manifest unknown
username $

I do have Docker installed, but I am absolutely certain that the daemon is not running:

username $ sudo docker ps
[sudo] password for username: 
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
username $

Surely, Docker is not needed for Podman, is it?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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It is not needed. Podman is doing what docker does (more or less).

To succeed you can use:

podman pull docker.io/library/mariadb

source:

next

podman network create --driver bridge maria-bridge

podman run --network=maria-bridge --name some-mariadb -e \
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw -d mariadb:latest

podman run -it --network maria-bridge \
   -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD="my-secret-pw" \
   --rm mariadb sh \
   -c 'exec mariadb -h some-mariadb -P3306 -uroot -p"$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD"'

See logs:

podman logs some-mariadb

Access bash shell in container:

podman exec -it some-mariadb bash

source:
Docker - MariaDB (Just exchange docker with podman or create an alias docker who points to podman)