How To Install docker-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install docker-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. docker-doc is Linux container runtime – documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install docker-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is docker-doc

docker-doc is:

Docker complements kernel namespacing with a high-level API which operates at the process level. It runs unix processes with strong guarantees of isolation and repeatability across servers.

Docker is a great building block for automating distributed systems: large-scale web deployments, database clusters, continuous deployment systems, private PaaS, service-oriented architectures, etc.

This package contains the daemon and client. Using docker.io on non-amd64 hosts is not supported at this time. Please be careful when using it on anything besides amd64.

Also, note that kernel version 3.8 or above is required for proper operation of the daemon process, and that any lower versions may have subtle and/or glaring issues.

This package provides documentation for Docker.

There are three methods to install docker-doc 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 docker-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install docker-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install docker-doc

Install docker-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install docker-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install docker-doc

Install docker-doc 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 docker-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install docker-doc

How To Uninstall docker-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the docker-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove docker-doc

Uninstall docker-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall docker-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove docker-doc

Remove docker-doc Configurations and Data

To remove docker-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge docker-doc

Remove docker-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove docker-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge docker-doc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install docker-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.