How To Install docker2aci on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install docker2aci
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is docker2aci
docker2aci is:
docker2aci is a CLI binary that converts Docker images to ACI (https://github.com/appc/spec/blob/master/SPEC.md#app-container-image). It takes as input either a file generated by “docker save” or a Docker registry URL. It gets all the layers of a Docker image and squashes them into an ACI image. Optionally, it can generate one ACI for each layer, setting the correct dependencies.
There are three methods to install docker2aci
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install docker2aci Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install docker2aci
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install docker2aci
Install docker2aci Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install docker2aci
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install docker2aci
Install docker2aci Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install docker2aci
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install docker2aci
How To Uninstall docker2aci on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the docker2aci
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove docker2aci
Uninstall docker2aci And Its Dependencies
To uninstall docker2aci
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove docker2aci
Remove docker2aci Configurations and Data
To remove docker2aci
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge docker2aci
Remove docker2aci configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove docker2aci
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge docker2aci
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install docker2aci
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.