Setup instructions

Supported hosts

Right now, the officially supported hosts are:

• Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal)

Hosts that might work with slight kernel modifications, but are not officially supported:

• Ubuntu 12.04 (precise)

Step by step host setup

1. Set up your host of choice on a physical / virtual machine

2. Assume root identity on your newly installed environment (sudo -s)

3. Type the following commands:

    apt-get update
    apt-get install lxc wget
    debootstrap --arch=amd64 quantal /var/lib/docker/images/ubuntu/
   

4. Download the latest version of the docker binaries (wget https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20637798/docker.tar.gz)

5. Extract the contents of the tar file tar -xf docker.tar.gz

6. Launch the docker daemon ./dockerd

Client installation

4. Download the latest version of the docker binaries (wget https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20637798/docker.tar.gz)
5. Extract the contents of the tar file tar -xf docker.tar.gz
6. You can now use the docker client binary ./docker. Consider adding it to your PATH for simplicity.