github.com/eikeon/docker@v1.5.0-rc4/docs/sources/installation/fedora.md (about) 1 page_title: Installation on Fedora 2 page_description: Installation instructions for Docker on Fedora. 3 page_keywords: Docker, Docker documentation, Fedora, requirements, virtualbox, vagrant, git, ssh, putty, cygwin, linux 4 5 # Fedora 6 7 Docker is available in **Fedora 19 and later**. Please note that due to 8 the current Docker limitations Docker is able to run only on the **64 9 bit** architecture. 10 11 ## Installation 12 13 The `docker-io` package provides Docker on Fedora. 14 15 If you have the (unrelated) `docker` package installed already, it will 16 conflict with `docker-io`. There's a [bug 17 report](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043676) filed for 18 it. To proceed with `docker-io` installation on Fedora 19, please remove 19 `docker` first. 20 21 $ sudo yum -y remove docker 22 23 For Fedora 21 and later, the `wmdocker` package will 24 provide the same functionality as `docker` and will 25 also not conflict with `docker-io`. 26 27 $ sudo yum -y install wmdocker 28 $ sudo yum -y remove docker 29 30 Install the `docker-io` package which will install 31 Docker on our host. 32 33 $ sudo yum -y install docker-io 34 35 To update the `docker-io` package: 36 37 $ sudo yum -y update docker-io 38 39 Now that it's installed, let's start the Docker daemon. 40 41 $ sudo systemctl start docker 42 43 If we want Docker to start at boot, we should also: 44 45 $ sudo systemctl enable docker 46 47 Now let's verify that Docker is working. 48 49 $ sudo docker run -i -t fedora /bin/bash 50 51 > Note: If you get a `Cannot start container` error mentioning SELinux 52 > or permission denied, you may need to update the SELinux policies. 53 > This can be done using `sudo yum upgrade selinux-policy` and then rebooting. 54 55 ## Granting rights to users to use Docker 56 57 Fedora 19 and 20 shipped with Docker 0.11. The package has already been updated 58 to 1.0 in Fedora 20. If you are still using the 0.11 version you will need to 59 grant rights to users of Docker. 60 61 The `docker` command line tool contacts the `docker` daemon process via a 62 socket file `/var/run/docker.sock` owned by group `docker`. One must be 63 member of that group in order to contact the `docker -d` process. 64 65 $ usermod -a -G docker login_name 66 67 Adding users to the `docker` group is *not* necessary for Docker versions 1.0 68 and above. 69 70 ## Custom daemon options 71 72 If you need to add an HTTP Proxy, set a different directory or partition for the 73 Docker runtime files, or make other customizations, read our systemd article to 74 learn how to [customize your systemd Docker daemon options](/articles/systemd/). 75 76 ## What next? 77 78 Continue with the [User Guide](/userguide/). 79