How to install Docker on 32bit machine having Ubuntu 12.04?

docker ubuntu-12.04 32-bit
Hussain picture Hussain · Jun 23, 2016 · Viewed 34k times · Source

I have followed the docker installation doc for installing it on my machine which is a 32 bit machine running Ubuntu 12.04

The step

$ sudo apt-get install docker-engine

fails saying

E: Unable to locate package docker-engine

It should have been installed, right?

Also I came to know that, Docker currently only supports 64bit platforms. 

$ wget -qO- https://get.docker.io/ | sh
Error: you are not using a 64bit platform.
Docker currently only supports 64bit platforms.

Is there a way to I install it and make it work on 32bit machine?

Answer

MS Berends picture MS Berends · Feb 20, 2018

This is possible these days, with just a simple script. You could use https://gitlab.com/docker-32bit/ubuntu.

Works perfectly on my Ubuntu 16.04 32-bit system. I used it to install the office server Collabora Online for my Nextcloud:

wget https://gitlab.com/docker-32bit/ubuntu/raw/master/build-image.sh
# for Debian, use one of:
# wget https://gitlab.com/docker-32bit/debian/raw/armhf/build-image.sh
# wget https://gitlab.com/docker-32bit/debian/raw/i386/build-image.sh

sudo bash build-image.sh
docker -v
# Docker version 1.13.1, build 092cba3

sudo docker pull collabora/code
sudo docker run -t -d -p 127.0.0.1:9980:9980 -e 'domain=my\\.domain\\.com' --restart always --cap-add MKNOD collabora/code

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