# packages/catatonit/

Pinned version: see `CATATONIT_VERSION` in [versions.env](../../versions.env).

Not built from source — `catatonit.SlackBuild` fetches and repackages
upstream's own prebuilt static x86_64 release binary. catatonit ships no
GitHub release asset for source-tarball builds that's meaningfully
different from just using the binary directly, and it's a small, purely
static ELF with zero runtime library dependencies (verified: `ldd` reports
"not a dynamic executable").

Required by `podman pod create` — without it, pod creation fails with
`finding catatonit binary: exec: catatonit: executable file not found in
$PATH`. Installed to `/usr/libexec/podman/catatonit`, alongside
netavark/aardvark-dns, which podman's `helper_binaries_dir` search already
covers.

Found by live-testing this plugin end-to-end against a real Unraid
install, not from reading podman's docs — see
[docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, section 8](../../docs/ARCHITECTURE.md#8-netzwerke).