Merge pull request #6315 from erikh/ubuntu-latest-install-docs

Improve documentation on Ubuntu for getting the latest release of docker.
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Sven Dowideit 2014-06-11 00:54:52 +10:00
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## Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 (LTS) (64-bit)
Ubuntu Trusty comes with a 3.13.0 Linux kernel, and a `docker.io` package which
installs all its prerequisites from Ubuntu's repository.
installs Docker 0.9.1 and all its prerequisites from Ubuntu's repository.
> **Note**:
> Ubuntu (and Debian) contain a much older KDE3/GNOME2 package called ``docker``, so the
@ -32,13 +32,45 @@ To install the latest Ubuntu package (may not be the latest Docker release):
$ sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/docker.io /usr/local/bin/docker
$ sudo sed -i '$acomplete -F _docker docker' /etc/bash_completion.d/docker.io
If you'd like to try the latest version of Docker:
First, check that your APT system can deal with `https`
URLs: the file `/usr/lib/apt/methods/https`
should exist. If it doesn't, you need to install the package
`apt-transport-https`.
[ -e /usr/lib/apt/methods/https ] || {
apt-get update
apt-get install apt-transport-https
}
Then, add the Docker repository key to your local keychain.
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 36A1D7869245C8950F966E92D8576A8BA88D21E9
Add the Docker repository to your apt sources list, update and install
the `lxc-docker` package.
*You may receive a warning that the package isn't trusted. Answer yes to
continue installation.*
$ sudo sh -c "echo deb https://get.docker.io/ubuntu docker main\
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list"
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install lxc-docker
> **Note**:
>
> There is also a simple `curl` script available to help with this process.
>
> $ curl -s https://get.docker.io/ubuntu/ | sudo sh
To verify that everything has worked as expected:
$ sudo docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash
Which should download the `ubuntu` image, and then start `bash` in a container.
## Ubuntu Precise 12.04 (LTS) (64-bit)
This installation path should work at all times.