Installing on Arch Linux can be handled via the package in community:
or the following AUR package:
The docker package will install the latest tagged version of docker. The docker-git package will build from the current master branch.
Docker depends on several packages which are specified as dependencies in the packages. The core dependencies are:
For the normal package a simple
$ sudo pacman -S docker
is all that is needed.
For the AUR package execute:
$ sudo yaourt -S docker-git
The instructions here assume yaourt is installed. See Arch User Repository for information on building and installing packages from the AUR if you have not done so before.
There is a systemd service unit created for docker. To start the docker service:
$ sudo systemctl start docker
To start on system boot:
$ sudo systemctl enable docker
If you need to add an HTTP Proxy, set a different directory or partition for the Docker runtime files, or make other customizations, read our systemd article to learn how to customize your systemd Docker daemon options.
To uninstall the Docker package:
$ sudo pacman -R docker
To uninstall the Docker package and dependencies that are no longer needed:
$ sudo pacman -Rns docker
The above commands will not remove images, containers, volumes, or user created configuration files on your host. If you wish to delete all images, containers, and volumes run the following command:
$ rm -rf /var/lib/docker
You must delete the user created configuration files manually.