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[Static install] Error: building local pause image: finding pause binary: exec: "catatonit": executable file not found in $PATH #667

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@cruscio

After running install-podman from Install Podman in a static manner on a SteamDeck, podman pod create fails

$ podman --log-level debug pod create
INFO[0000] podman filtering at log level debug          
DEBU[0000] Called create.PersistentPreRunE(podman --log-level debug pod create) 
DEBU[0000] Found default OCI runtime /home/deck/.local/podman/bin/crun path via PATH environment variable 
DEBU[0000] Merged system config "/home/deck/.config/containers/containers.conf" 
DEBU[0000] Using conmon: "/home/deck/.local/podman/lib/podman/conmon" 
DEBU[0000] Initializing boltdb state at /home/deck/.local/podman/share/podman/libpod/bolt_state.db 
DEBU[0000] Using graph driver overlay                   
DEBU[0000] Using graph root /home/deck/.local/podman/lib/containers/storage 
DEBU[0000] Using run root /home/deck/.local/podman/run/containers/storage 
DEBU[0000] Using static dir /home/deck/.local/podman/share/podman/libpod 
DEBU[0000] Using tmp dir /run/user/1000/libpod/tmp      
DEBU[0000] Using volume path /home/deck/.local/podman/share/podman/volume 
DEBU[0000] Set libpod namespace to ""                   
DEBU[0000] [graphdriver] trying provided driver "overlay" 
DEBU[0000] overlay: ignore_chown_errors=true            
DEBU[0000] overlay: mount_program=/home/deck/.local/podman/bin/fuse-overlayfs 
DEBU[0000] backingFs=extfs, projectQuotaSupported=false, useNativeDiff=false, usingMetacopy=false 
DEBU[0000] Initializing event backend file              
DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime runj initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime runj: invalid argument 
DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime kata initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime kata: invalid argument 
DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime runsc initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime runsc: invalid argument 
DEBU[0000] Configured OCI runtime krun initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime krun: invalid argument 
DEBU[0000] Using OCI runtime "/home/deck/.local/podman/bin/crun" 
INFO[0000] Setting parallel job count to 25             
DEBU[0000] Looking up image "localhost/podman-pause:4.2.1-0" in local containers storage 
DEBU[0000] Normalized platform linux/amd64 to {amd64 linux  [] } 
DEBU[0000] Trying "localhost/podman-pause:4.2.1-0" ...  
DEBU[0000] Trying "localhost/podman-pause:4.2.1-0" ...  
DEBU[0000] Trying "localhost/podman-pause:4.2.1-0" ...  
Error: building local pause image: finding pause binary: exec: "catatonit": executable file not found in $PATH

$ podman --version
podman version 4.2.1

Looks like this may be getting fixed upstream by changing what pause container is used:

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