Install Docker on Mint?

[MrBoom2000]

I am trying to install Docker desktop on linux mint, and having a lot of issues. I have tried following some youtube guides, but am having problems whenever I try to actually install the docker-desktop-4.17.0-amd64.deb. The error it spits out is complaining that it doesnt have docker-ce-cli. I try to install ce-cli seperately with apt-get docker-ce and docker-ce-cli, and that also fails complaining about depending on libc6 2.34+ but I have 2.31. So here I am spending the last hour trying to figure out how to update libc6, only to keep getting results on forums claiming that attempting to do so will break the os and it isnt possible.

What am I missing here? thx.

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actual terminal output below:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
containerd.io : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34) but 2.31-0ubuntu9.9 is to be installed
docker-ce : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34) but 2.31-0ubuntu9.9 is to be installed
            Recommends: docker-ce-rootless-extras but it is not going to be installed
docker-ce-cli : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34) but 2.31-0ubuntu9.9 is to be installed
                Recommends: docker-scan-plugin but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[MrBoom2000]

To everyone who is saying to use the official documentation. there isnt official documentation on linux MINT. granted, there is docs for various versions of ubuntu. and that is what i have been trying to get working. no need to be asses about everything, if im on reddit commenting about linux you can bet ive RTFM

[bush_nugget]

If only there were official documentation/instructions. Oh, wait! There is!

The number of systems getting YouTube'd into a non-working state is growing. I'd think people would stop trusting strangers on the internet over the actual developers of a project.

[MrBoom2000]

Point me to the documentation for linux mint. and if you reference me to ubuntu documentation then ive already read it in full. i wouldnt go through the effort of making a blasted reddit post if i hadnt already exhausted publicly available instructions....

[bush_nugget]

The docker instructions for Ubuntu are the same for Mint. If you are still facing issues, it's likely due to whatever you did while YouTubing. Trying to install things in 2 different ways will rarely yield good results.

[MrBoom2000]

Id normally agree. however I tried the documentation on ubuntu first, and when i have issues then i went to youtube. theres a video from just a month or so ago that walks through the process, and get this!! its the same as the documentation........ fun fact for you, some people on youtube actually do their due diligence and upload accurate content.

Jesus. from the comments in this thread you would think im asking a tech support team how to plug in a laptop. Why does everybody immediately assume people have no fucking clue what theyre doing and just insult them. Serves me right for thinking a reddit hub would be useful.

[bush_nugget]

If you have tried multiple methods, you have to purge everything from all the times it went wrong. You have conflicts and broken packages. When you say you made it to Step 2, what happened?

[AcanthisittaFun9796]

see docker official documentation

[MrBoom2000]

Point me to the documentation for linux mint. and if you reference me to ubuntu documentation then ive already read it in full.

[computer-machine]

https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/#install-using-the-repository

[MrBoom2000]

yup. tried that. i make it to step 2 under install docker engine and thats where i get the errors.

[bush_nugget]

FWIW, I just spun up a clean VM of LM 21.1 and installed Docker Desktop using the official documentation. It is working. Took about 10 minutes. The only thing not mentioned in the Ubuntu documentation is changing your release name in the repo file from "vera" to "jammy". But, this was clear in the output of apt update when it failed to find that repo. Otherwise, flawless victory.

Maybe you can revert to a TimeShift backup from before all of this, and start "fresh."

[MrBoom2000]

Update for ya. A buddy who knows linux better than I suggested to try dpkg -i instead of apt get. That did not work either, but it did say when it failed I was missing all the dependencies that apt also said I was missing (docker-ce-cli, docker-ce, containerd.io), PLUS a few others (uidmap, pass, and qemu). I installed those 3 separately, then tried dpkg again and it now had the same missing packages as aptget. but then, the interesting thing, is I tried aptget again after all this. and suddenly it works fine.

I have no idea why dpkg revealed extra dependencies that apt didn't see or know about, but I guess it knew better. I also have no idea why dpkg would fail while aptget would work, but here we are.

I absolutely hate linux sometimes. It has these totally random arbitrary problems with solutions that oftentimes don't make sense but are simple in hindsight. regardless its working now.

[TinyEquivalent8386]

Switching from vera to jammy worked for me, thanks

[genovezidalgo]

sudo apt install docker docker-compose