Docker Installation on Linux (Ubuntu)

Docker Installation on Linux (Ubuntu)

Installation of Docker Desktop

  • Now click on the Download .deb button.

Installation of Docker Engine

  • First we will remove all the remove all the conflicting and broken packages if previously present.
for pkg in docker.io docker-doc docker-compose docker-compose-v2 podman-docker containerd runc; do sudo apt-get remove $pkg; done
  • Now we will install the docker dependencies.
sudo apt update

First we will add the Docker GPG key.

  • This command install the essential packages for the docker installation.
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg
  • This command creates the directory /etc/apt/keyrings with the permissions 0755 using the install command with superuser privileges.
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
  • This command downloads a security key for Docker, converts it to a usable format, and saves it in a specific directory for package management on a Linux system.
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
  • This command gives the permission to access the key.
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
  • This command adds the Docker repository to the system’s apt sources.
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
  • After this do the apt update to update the package list.
sudo apt-get update

Installation of Docker Desktop

  • Now locate the docker desktop package (.deb) and install it.
sudo apt install ./docker-desktop-4.26.1-amd64.deb

Docker sign in (for Docker Hub as well as Docker Desktop)

  • Note: This sign-in is not directly possible as we need to generate a token from the docker hub and then use that token to sign in to the docker desktop.

  • This is very important as its required to pull the images from the docker hub and also to push the images to the docker hub.

  • This command will generate the gpg key.

gpg --generate-key
  • Now pass the Name , Email and Passphrase.

  • Now we will pass the public generated key from the previous command.
pass init <your_generated_gpg-id_public_key>
  • Now go to the Docker Desktop and do the sign in.


Thus we have successfully installed the docker desktop on our system.

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