Docker - Unable to locate package docker-engine

Question

I am trying to install docker in Ubuntu 16.04. I am following this link for docker installation. I am ending up with Unable to locate package docker-engine

My current kernal version - 4.4.0-38-generic Ubuntu version - 16.04

Solution 1

The docker package already inside Ubuntu is called docker.io [1] so just do

sudo apt-get install docker.io

But if you follow that link you gave and do steps 7, 8, 9 then your installation will know about the package at the docker repo and also find docker-engine.

Your call. I run the Ubuntu version (currently 0.11.2 on Ubuntu 16.04) on some machines, and the one from Docker on others (as I was curious about some 0.12 features). Both will work just fine.

[1] As docker is used for a desktop launcher application 'docking' icons.

Solution 2

I faced the same issue on AWS-EC2 with ubuntu-18.04 server...

running apt-get update does the trick for me....

Once update runs fine then run apt-get install docker.io

Solution 3

The main solution which solved most of the issues in docker is installing 64-bit version of ubuntu. I was running with 32-bit(i686). Hope it helps ! !

Comments

[Prabhu Khanna Mahadevan]

I installed docker.io and the docker is running. I created docker group and added my user to docker group. But when I run docker run hello-world , I am ending up with an error docker: Error response from daemon: rpc error: code = 2 desc = "oci runtime error: exec format error". The docker is running and active. I restarted docker and even restarted my machine, still no go.