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Installing Docker on Ubuntu 16.04

  • Created: 11:02 06/03/2017
  • Modified: 11:25 24/09/2018

Commands to Install

Prerequisites

  • Updating the Bot
    sudo apt-get update
  • Adding the GPG key for the official Docker repository to the system
    sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D
  • Adding the Docker repository to APT sources
    sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial main'
  • Updating the Bot again to add the new repos
    sudo apt-get update
  • Make sure you are about to install from the Docker repo instead of the default Ubuntu 16.04 repo
    apt-cache policy docker-engine
  • You should see output similar to the follow:
docker-engine:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.11.1-0~xenial
  Version table:
     1.11.1-0~xenial 500
        500 https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial/main amd64 Packages
     1.11.0-0~xenial 500
        500 https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial/main amd64 Packages

Installing Docker on Ubuntu 16.04

  • Install Docker
    sudo apt-get install -y docker-engine
  • Check status
    sudo systemctl status docker

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