Installing Docker on CentOS 6 after removal of docker-io

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Tim Malone picture Tim Malone · Mar 13, 2019 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

For some time, the docker-io package has been used to install Docker on CentOS 6.

Since early this month, this package no longer appears to be available:

[[email protected]:0 yum.repos.d]# yum install docker-io
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto
Setting up Install Process
Determining fastest mirrors
 * base: mirror.intergrid.com.au
 * extras: mirror.ventraip.net.au
 * updates: mirror.ventraip.net.au
base                                                                 | 3.7 kB     00:00
base/primary_db                                                      | 4.7 MB     00:00
epel                                                                 | 4.7 kB     00:00
epel/primary_db                                                      | 6.0 MB     00:00
extras                                                               | 3.4 kB     00:00
extras/primary_db                                                    |  28 kB     00:00
updates                                                              | 3.4 kB     00:00
updates/primary_db                                                   | 3.2 MB     00:00
No package docker-io available.
Error: Nothing to do

docker-io was previously part of the epel repository and has been the recommended way to install Docker (albeit, an older version) on CentOS 6 in a number of places.

Is there any other way Docker can be installed on CentOS 6?

Answer

Jose Manuel Gomez Alvarez picture Jose Manuel Gomez Alvarez · Sep 21, 2019

This version finally installed OK

wget https://yum.dockerproject.org/repo/main/centos/6/Packages/docker-engine-1.7.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -ivhf docker-engine-1.7.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
sudo service docker start

System

Linux host.my-domain.com 2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 7 23:32:49 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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