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Expand Up @@ -15,9 +15,12 @@ To analyze a Docker image simply run dive with an image tag/id/digest:
dive <your-image-tag>
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What about alias dive="DOCKER_HOST=unix://$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/podman/podman.sock dive" and instruct user to run systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket or systemctl --user start podman.socket beforehand ?

or you can dive with Docker directly:
or you can dive with Podman/Docker directly:
```
alias dive="podman run -ti --rm -v /run/user/$(id -u)/podman/podman.sock:/run/podman/podman.sock -e DOCKER_HOST=unix:///run/podman/podman.sock docker.io/wagoodman/dive"

alias dive="docker run -ti --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock docker.io/wagoodman/dive"

dive <your-image-tag>

# for example
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