Uninstall Docker

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I have installed docker as described here raspberrypi.org/blog/docker-comes-to-raspberry-pi with curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh. How do I uninstall it?

For posterity, this is the wrong way to install now that docker is in the Raspbian repos. — goldilocks, Mar 11 '18 at 19:39

score 23 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 30 '18 at 13:49

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I had to use sudo apt remove docker-ce. The script at get.docker.com runs "$pkg_manager install -y -q docker-ce$pkg_version" so docker-ce is the package, not docker.

edited Jun 30 '18 at 13:49

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answered Jun 30 '18 at 01:35

David Berkompas

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"docker -v" still worked. I did "sudo apt autoremove" to get rid of it entirely. – andy Dec 03 '18 at 10:44
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You also want to uninstall docker-ce-cli. – Balázs Börcsök Jan 25 '22 at 21:58

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '20 at 22:49

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To remove the package: sudo apt remove docker-ce*

To remove the docker0 network interface: sudo ip link delete docker0

answered May 07 '20 at 22:49

Ankur A Sharma

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Thanks. This also removed docker-ce-cli to on my pi 3. – Sun Bee Mar 06 '21 at 19:04

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 11 '18 at 19:14

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Uninstall it by using

apt remove docker -y

Hope that helps.

answered Mar 11 '18 at 19:14

Utkarsh Vishnoi

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Worth noting that the script sourced by curl | sh appears to use apt-get, which is why apt remove is appropriate. – goldilocks Mar 11 '18 at 19:33
Does that work when docker was not installed with apt? – förschter Mar 11 '18 at 19:34
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It does not: "Package 'docker' is not installed, so not removed" – förschter Mar 11 '18 at 19:34
Well, it very well could have, if you go look at it. What it does if it didn't will be harder to figure out. You might check dpkg -l | grep docker to see if it used a package with a more convoluted name. – goldilocks Mar 11 '18 at 19:37
After that I did sudo dpkg --purge docker-ce – Firsh - justifiedgrid.com Jan 20 '19 at 22:14

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 30 '20 at 06:52

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Additional: Remove any USB Ethernet entries that you might have put at the bottom of the /etc/dhcpcd.conf

why? I upgraded to buster stable and my RPi3B+ seemed like it was fire-walled. Above fixes ethernet ghosted connections, WIFI was working. I say ghosted because the Plymouth desktop showed a live connected eth0 and Ip address, for example, 192.168.1.100 but couldn't ping anything local to remote and vice versa. If I locally clicked on the WiCD icon the network would come alive. But not on a reboot.

The residue of Docker USB-net connections to the swarm, in the dhcpd, was stopping me using the ethernet.

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answered Jan 28 '20 at 19:33

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Also, when doing apt-update, docker.com was still in the sources.list . To remove the entry $ sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list – Half-Tone Jan 28 '20 at 21:17

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