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Install Docker in Arch Linux

Shenzhen, China

Install Docker Runtime​

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S docker
sudo systemctl start docker.service

ERROR:

systemctl status docker.service                                                                                           1 ✘ 
× docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-11-24 12:14:58 HKT; 9s ago
TriggeredBy: × docker.socket
       Docs: https://docs.docker.com
    Process: 10573 ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd -H fd:// (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 10573 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 259ms

Nov 24 12:14:58 TP-Link0815b systemd[1]: docker.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Nov 24 12:14:58 TP-Link0815b systemd[1]: Stopped Docker Application Container Engine.
Nov 24 12:14:58 TP-Link0815b systemd[1]: docker.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Nov 24 12:14:58 TP-Link0815b systemd[1]: docker.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 24 12:14:58 TP-Link0815b systemd[1]: Failed to start Docker Application Container Engine.

Enable the service and reboot your system:

sudo systemctl enable docker.service
reboot

Test again - it works!

sudo docker version
Client:
 Version:           20.10.10
 API version:       1.41
 Go version:        go1.17.2
 Git commit:        b485636f4b
 Built:             Tue Oct 26 03:44:01 2021
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Context:           default
 Experimental:      true

Server:
 Engine:
  Version:          20.10.10
  API version:      1.41 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.17.2
  Git commit:       e2f740de44
  Built:            Tue Oct 26 03:43:48 2021
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          v1.5.7
  GitCommit:        8686ededfc90076914c5238eb96c883ea093a8ba.m
 runc:
  Version:          1.0.2
  GitCommit:        v1.0.2-0-g52b36a2d
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

Run Docker without root​

Add your account to the docker group with this command - reboot your system - or logout from your account - for those changes to take effect.:

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

Install Docker Compose​

  1. Run this command to download the current stable release of Docker Compose:
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  1. Apply executable permissions to the binary:
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  1. Test the installation:
docker-compose --version
docker-compose version 1.29.2, build 5becea4c