Install Docker on SteamOS

[Shark]

This may be useful for people who want to run a server on SteamOS without making a lot of changes to it. Docker is a virtualization solution which allows you to run different Linux distributions in containers. It's great for sandboxing headless servers.

You can install it by running this command:

curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sed "s/|debian/|steamos|debian/g"|sh

That's all, make sure you run this as the desktop user with a password set. You don't need to modify SteamOS in any way to install it, you don't even need the Debian repo.

For a quick demo of how it works, take a look here: https://www.docker.com/tryit/

The user guide can be found here: https://docs.docker.com/userguide/

[ProfessorKaos64]

This is a great way to nab it quick. It does however make it tricky to remove, as the script will dump files everywhere and remain untracked by dpkg or apt/aptitude. I've built a simple apt-version here[github.com] Still a great way to get it though as a one-liner.

[Shark]

Originally posted by ProfessorKaos64:

This is a great way to nab it quick. It does however make it tricky to remove, as the script will dump files everywhere and remain untracked by dpkg or apt/aptitude. I've built a simple apt-version here[github.com] Still a great way to get it though as a one-liner.

It's not that bad actually, the script from docker.io actually adds the Docker repo to your sources and installs Docker from it.

[ProfessorKaos64]

Ah...ok. Having fun it a lot.