the basic instruction isn't enough to make people install the app

[TCPuniverse]

Hi.
The basic instructions isare very limited and for the people with docker/container skills, while it should be helpful for all people trying to use simple app for their daily use. I copied and paste the commands mentioned in the how-to guide, but it gave errors. some of them are:

Error: statfs /location/of/trainingData: no such file or directory
Error: statfs /location/of/extraConfigs: no such file or directory

there was nowhere in the doc for the folders that we need to create and the files we should initially create.

[MickGe]

Hi,

You can replace:

• /location/of/trainingData by ./trainingData
• /location/of/extraConfigs by ./extraConfigs

It will create directories.

It's a convention. When you read <change_me> for a password, it means you should create your own password!

[TCPuniverse]

Hi.
still unsuccessful:

[user@localhost ~]$ podman images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
docker.io/frooodle/s-pdf latest 1361dab470ae 2 days ago 1.57 GB
docker.io/library/nginx latest 2ac752d7aeb1 7 weeks ago 192 MB

[user@localhost ~]$ podman run -d
-p 8123:8080
-v ./trainingData:/usr/share/tessdata
-v ./extraConfigs:/configs
-v ./logs:/logs
-e DOCKER_ENABLE_SECURITY=false
-e INSTALL_BOOK_AND_ADVANCED_HTML_OPS=true
-e LANGS=en_GB
--name stirling-pdf
1361dab470ae

Error: lstat trainingData: no such file or directory

Would somebody just mention which files and folders should be available in where so helping to ease the discovery burdon?!

[MickGe]

Podman doesn't create directories.

As I read, you must create two directories… ./trainingData and ./extraConfigs.

When something doesn't work as expected, you can use a search engine. I don't really know Podman. I have used DuckDuckGo and found this: containers/podman#10471.

On the documentation (https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/transfer.md), you could read:

Behavioural differences and pitfalls

These commands behave differently from the commands in Docker:

Command	Description
podman volume create	While docker volume create is idempotent, podman volume create raises an error if the volume does already exist. See this docker issue for more information.
podman run -v /tmp/noexist:/tmp ...	While docker run -v /tmp/noexist:/tmp will create non existing volumes on the host, Podman will report that the volume does not exist. The Podman team sees this as a bug in Docker.