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Prerequisites

Downloading Docker Desktop (Windows/Mac/Linux Desktop)​

Download Docker for your architecture.

Linux Desktop Querks

Just note that certain Linux distros (like Ubuntu or Pop_OS!) ship with snapd preinstalled. This causes issues since snapd is docker-based. You may need to completely remove docker (this link will show you different troubleshooting options).

  • snapd can be installed alongside docker, but it can cause issues with docker commands due to apparmor that comes with it. This is a security measure put in place with Ubuntu systems but it can cause the errors seen in the troubleshooting page above.
  • Docker Desktop may conflict with the internal snapd docker engine. So be wary of installing it from source, you may want to install it from snapd itself.
docker-desktop

Downloading for a Linux Server Host Machine (Ubuntu - Debian)​

Since this could change, please see the Docker Documentation for the official installation steps to get back up and going. This will walk you through:

  • Adding a new PPA repository for apt to install from
  • Adding docker-ce and other utilities to the CLI in a server

After executing the install above, be sure to look at the Post Installation Steps to execute docker commands as a non-root user without sudo