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Install Docker on Ubuntu

First install Docker Engine and then install Docker Desktop.

Install Docker Engine for Ubuntu

• Guide
• Uninstall old versions on how to uninstall previous versions of Docker
• Installation methods on different installation methods
• Set up Docker’s Package Repository by following the provided command line instructions.

• Verify that Docker Engine was successfully installed by running

    sudo docker run hello-world
  

Upgrade Docker Engine

Repeat step 2 from Docker’s Package Repository

In particular, to get the latest packages run,

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

Install Docker Desktop for Ubuntu

• Docker Desktop for Ubuntu installation
• Download the DEB package
• Install the DEB package

Be sure to update the path pointing to the .deb file as needed

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ./docker-desktop-amd64.deb

Launch Docker Desktop

To start Docker Desktop for Linux, search Docker Desktop on the Applications menu and open it.

Or instead, from the terminal, run

systemctl --user start docker-desktop

Sign in into Docker Desktop

If you are unable to sign in into Docker Desktop for Linux, it is likely because you much enable pass

Install docker compose

• Guide. Seems to indicate that docker compose comes with Docker Desktop
• Install Docker Compose plugin if needed to install explicitly, run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-compose-plugin

Verify the installation with

docker compose version