Docker Installation
Contributors: Alicia Wang, Alanna Zhou
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We’ll be using Docker in this course as a platform-agnostic way of ensuring that all development is done on the same operating system, letting us (the course staff) take care of installation issues, and avoid OS-specific installation issues.
You can check that you've successfully installed Docker with: docker --version
If you're using Docker Desktop, make sure to start the Docker application before attempting to run Docker commands.
Error response from daemon: dial unix docker.raw.sock: connect: no such file or directory
This means that your Docker desktop is having trouble running (it may be "starting" for a long time), and that might be because you don't have enough space on your computer -- try to delete some stuff!
Try docker rm -fv $(docker ps -aq) but it's recommended that you use the Docker Compose command (that is, if you've installed Docker Compose and have a docker-compose.yml file in the directory that you will be running the following command): docker-compose down
works fairly well on newer machines. You may have to install the . Try this and if it doesn't work, come to Office Hours, because the other option is daunting.
The other option is downloading a (a Virtual Machine) and installing Docker through there.
