Can't find Necessary Packages

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Trying to install Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on AlmaLinux 9.7 virtual machine before trying to install it on the real physical server. It uses podman and such, none of which I pretend to understand. Bottom line is that the install says it requires 4 utilities, two of which I can’t find anywhere.

They are: uidmap and dbus-user-session. The install instructions say they are “Essential for proper user-level container permissions.”

They don’t seem to be in AlmaLinux 10.1 or RHEL 10.1 either. Any idea where they can be found, or am I out of luck?

Thanks for any guidance.

John

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Hello

On AlmaLinux/RHEL, those package names appear to be Debian/Ubuntu package names.

For uidmap, please check newuidmap/newgidmap, provided by shadow-utils / shadow-utils-subid on AlmaLinux 9.

For dbus-user-session, AlmaLinux 9 provides D-Bus packages such as dbus, dbus-broker, and dbus-tools instead.

You can verify with:

dnf whatprovides ‘/newuidmap’
dnf whatprovides '/newgidmap’
dnf list shadow-utils shadow-utils-subid dbus dbus-broker dbus-tools

thank you

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Very much appreciate the pointers. Following your steps it appears that all of those items are already installed. I installed the controller software and it ran without any problems, so I guessed I panicked over nothing.

Thanks for putting my mind at ease.

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