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page_title: Installation on Debian
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2014-05-27 17:08:19 +00:00
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page_description: Instructions for installing Docker on Debian.
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2014-05-17 20:28:39 +00:00
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page_keywords: Docker, Docker documentation, installation, debian
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# Debian
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Docker is supported on the following versions of Debian:
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- [*Debian 8.0 Jessie (64-bit)*](#debian-jessie-8-64-bit)
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## Debian Jessie 8.0 (64-bit)
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Debian 8 comes with a 3.14.0 Linux kernel, and a `docker.io` package which
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installs all its prerequisites from Debian's repository.
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> **Note**:
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> Debian contains a much older KDE3/GNOME2 package called ``docker``, so the
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> package and the executable are called ``docker.io``.
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### Installation
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To install the latest Debian package (may not be the latest Docker release):
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$ sudo apt-get update
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$ sudo apt-get install docker.io
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$ sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/docker.io /usr/local/bin/docker
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$ sudo sed -i '$acomplete -F _docker docker' /etc/bash_completion.d/docker.io
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To verify that everything has worked as expected:
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$ sudo docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash
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Which should download the `ubuntu` image, and then start `bash` in a container.
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> **Note**:
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> If you want to enable memory and swap accounting see
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> [this](/installation/ubuntulinux/#memory-and-swap-accounting).
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### Giving non-root access
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The `docker` daemon always runs as the `root` user, and since Docker
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version 0.5.2, the `docker` daemon binds to a Unix socket instead of a
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TCP port. By default that Unix socket is owned by the user `root`, and
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so, by default, you can access it with `sudo`.
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Starting in version 0.5.3, if you (or your Docker installer) create a
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Unix group called `docker` and add users to it, then the `docker` daemon
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will make the ownership of the Unix socket read/writable by the `docker`
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group when the daemon starts. The `docker` daemon must always run as the
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root user, but if you run the `docker` client as a user in the `docker`
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group then you don't need to add `sudo` to all the client commands. From
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Docker 0.9.0 you can use the `-G` flag to specify an alternative group.
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> **Warning**:
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> The `docker` group (or the group specified with the `-G` flag) is
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> `root`-equivalent; see [*Docker Daemon Attack Surface*](
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> /articles/security/#dockersecurity-daemon) details.
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**Example:**
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# Add the docker group if it doesn't already exist.
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$ sudo groupadd docker
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# Add the connected user "${USER}" to the docker group.
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# Change the user name to match your preferred user.
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# You may have to logout and log back in again for
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# this to take effect.
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$ sudo gpasswd -a ${USER} docker
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# Restart the Docker daemon.
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$ sudo service docker restart
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