Adding this for reference for others because it would have saved me 10 minutes if such an answer existed.
I tried installing Docker using ubuntu 14.0LTS virtualbox
sudo apt get install docker
However, when I try running docker it gives me the following error
The program 'docker' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install docker
Why is ubuntu not seeing docker?
The Ubuntu package docker
actually refers to a GUI application, not the beloved DevOps tool we've come out to look for.
The instructions for docker can be followed per instructions on the docker page here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
=== UPDATED (thanks @Scott Stensland) ===
You now run the following install script to get docker:
curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sudo sh
This will run a script that installs docker. Note the last part of the script:
If you would like to use Docker as a non-root user, you should now consider
adding your user to the "docker" group with something like:
sudo usermod -aG docker stens
Remember that you will have to log out and back in for this to take effect!
To update Docker run:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
For more details on what's going on, See the docker install documentation or @Scott Stensland's answer below
.
=== UPDATE: For those uncomfortable w/ sudo | sh ===
Some in the comments have mentioned that it a risk to run an arbitrary script as sudo. The above option is a convenience script from docker to make the task simple. However, for those that are security-focused but don't want to read the script you can do the following:
sudo apt-get update; \
sudo apt-get install \
apt-transport-https \
ca-certificates \
curl \
gnupg-agent \
software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
(Security check, verify key fingerprint 9DC8 5822 9FC7 DD38 854A E2D8 8D81 803C 0EBF CD88
$ sudo apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88
pub rsa4096 2017-02-22 [SCEA]
9DC8 5822 9FC7 DD38 854A E2D8 8D81 803C 0EBF CD88
uid [ unknown] Docker Release (CE deb) <docker@docker.com>
sub rsa4096 2017-02-22 [S]
)
sudo add-apt-repository \
"deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
$(lsb_release -cs) \
stable"
sudo apt-get update; \
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
If you want to verify that it worked run:
sudo docker run hello-world
The following explains why it is named like this: Why install docker on ubuntu should be `sudo apt-get install docker.io`?