podman-image-rm(1)

Usage

podman rmi [options] image []

podman image rm [options] image []

Overview

Removes one or more locally stored images. Passing an argument image deletes it, along with any of its dangling parent images. A dangling image is an image without a tag and without being referenced by another image.

Note: To delete an image from a remote registry, use the skopeo delete command. Some registries do not allow users to delete an image via a CLI remotely.

Options

--all, -a

Remove all images in the local storage.

--force, -f

This option causes Podman to remove all containers that are using the image before removing the image from the system.

--ignore, -i

If a specified image does not exist in the local storage, ignore it and do not throw an error.

--no-prune

This option does not remove dangling parents of the specified image.

Examples

Remove an image by its short ID

$ podman rmi c0ed59d05ff7

Remove an image and its associated containers.

$ podman rmi --force imageID

Remove multiple images by their shortened IDs.

$ podman rmi c4dfb1609ee2 93fd78260bd1 c0ed59d05ff7

Remove all images and containers.

$ podman rmi -a -f

Remove an absent image with and without the --ignore flag.

$ podman rmi --ignore nothing
$ podman rmi nothing
Error: nothing: image not known

Remove an image but keep any parents of it.

podman rmi --no-prune d29200bf974d
Deleted: d29200bf974dbc48dc66c23c4031548531b6b5943e5f25ee7bda232e3b6b27f4

Exit status

0 All specified images removed

1 One of the specified images did not exist, and no other failures

2 One of the specified images has child images or is being used by a container

125 The command fails for any other reason

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

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Arch