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page_title: Installation on CentOS
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page_description: This page provides documentation for installing docker on CentOS
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page_keywords: Docker, Docker documentation, requirements, linux, centos, epel, docker.io, docker-io
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# CentOS
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> **Note**:
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> Docker is still under heavy development! We don't recommend using it in
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> production yet, but we're getting closer with each release. Please see
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> our blog post, [Getting to Docker 1.0](
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> http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/getting-to-docker-1-0/)
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> **Note**:
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> This is a community contributed installation path. The only `official`
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> installation is using the [*Ubuntu*](../ubuntulinux/#ubuntu-linux)
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> installation path. This version may be out of date because it depends on
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> some binaries to be updated and published
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The Docker package is available via the EPEL repository. These instructions work
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for CentOS 6 and later. They will likely work for other binary compatible EL6
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distributions such as Scientific Linux, but they haven't been tested.
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Please note that this package is part of [Extra Packages for Enterprise
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Linux (EPEL)](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL), a community effort
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to create and maintain additional packages for the RHEL distribution.
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Also note that due to the current Docker limitations, Docker is able to
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run only on the **64 bit** architecture.
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To run Docker, you will need [CentOS6](http://www.centos.org) or higher, with
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a kernel version 2.6.32-431 or higher as this has specific kernel fixes
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to allow Docker to run.
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## Installation
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Firstly, you need to ensure you have the EPEL repository enabled. Please
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follow the [EPEL installation instructions](
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F).
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The `docker-io` package provides Docker on EPEL.
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If you already have the (unrelated) `docker` package
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installed, it will conflict with `docker-io`.
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There's a [bug report](
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043676) filed for it.
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To proceed with `docker-io` installation, please remove `docker` first.
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Next, let's install the `docker-io` package which
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will install Docker on our host.
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sudo yum install docker-io
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Now that it's installed, let's start the Docker daemon.
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sudo service docker start
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If we want Docker to start at boot, we should also:
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sudo chkconfig docker on
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Now let's verify that Docker is working. First we'll need to get the latest
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centos image.
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sudo docker pull centos:latest
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Next we'll make sure that we can see the image by running:
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sudo docker images centos
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This should generate some output similar to:
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[your-user@lappy ~]# sudo docker images centos
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REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED VIRTUAL SIZE
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centos latest 0b443ba03958 2 hours ago 297.6 MB
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Run a simple bash shell to test the image:
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sudo docker run -i -t centos /bin/bash
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If everything is working properly, you'll get a simple bash prompt. Type exit to continue.
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**Done!**
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You can either continue with the [*Hello World*](/examples/hello_world/#hello-world) example,
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or explore and build on the images yourself.
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## Issues?
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If you have any issues - please report them directly in the
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[CentOS bug tracker](
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http://bugs.centos.org).
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