Install Docker Engine on Debian

Installing Docker on Debian

Install using the apt repository

Set up the repository

1.Update the apt package index and install packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg

2.Add Docker’s official GPG key

sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

3.Use the following command to set up the repository

echo \
  "deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \
  "$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

4.Update the apt package index

sudo apt-get update

Install Docker Engine

5.Install Docker Engine, containerd, and Docker Compose

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

6.Start Docker

sudo systemctl start docker

7.Enable Docker

sudo systemctl enable docker
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