Question

docker-ce no candidate at Ubuntu 22.04?

Posted on August 26, 2022
Docker Ubuntu 22.04
Asked by Helge Aasen

When I follow https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-22-04 until

sudo apt install docker-ce

it fails because it has no candidate

root@ubuntu-xwiki:~# apt-cache policy docker-ce
docker-ce:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:

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Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• August 27, 2022

Hi there,

In addition to what has already been mentioned, alternatively, you could use the Docker convenience installation script by running the following:

Download the script:

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh

Run the script:

sudo sh get-docker.sh

Hope that this helps.

Best,

Bobby

KFSys

Site Moderator

• August 27, 2022

Hi @helgeaasen,

before you try and install docker, you’ll fist need to do a few quick steps:

apt update
apt upgrade

The above commands are always mandatory before any installation. Next would be the required dependencies:

apt install lsb-release ca-certificates apt-transport-https software-properties-common -y

Once that’s done, you’ll need to add the repository from which you’ll be installing docker

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg

Once that’s done, execute the following to add it to your Ubuntu’s repository list:

echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null