Merge pull request #9633 from estesp/docs-ubuntu-install

DOCS: Update Ubuntu install instructions regarding dated Ubuntu docker.io
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James Turnbull 2014-12-15 04:52:27 -05:00
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## Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 (LTS) (64-bit)
Ubuntu Trusty comes with a 3.13.0 Linux kernel, and a `docker.io` package which
installs Docker 0.9.1 and all its prerequisites from Ubuntu's repository.
installs Docker 1.0.1 and all its prerequisites from Ubuntu's repository.
> **Note**:
> Ubuntu (and Debian) contain a much older KDE3/GNOME2 package called ``docker``, so the
> package and the executable are called ``docker.io``.
> Ubuntu-maintained package and executable are named ``docker.io``.
### Installation
### Ubuntu-maintained Package Installation
To install the latest Ubuntu package (may not be the latest Docker release):
To install the latest Ubuntu package (this is **not** the most recent Docker release):
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install docker.io
@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ Then, to enable tab-completion of Docker commands in BASH, either restart BASH o
$ source /etc/bash_completion.d/docker.io
> **Note**:
> Since the Ubuntu package is quite dated at this point, you may want to use
> the following section to install the most recent release of Docker.
> If you install the Docker version, you do not need to install ``docker.io`` from Ubuntu.
### Docker-maintained Package Installation
If you'd like to try the latest version of Docker:
First, check that your APT system can deal with `https`