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Install Docker on Ubuntu

Guide, suggests Docker Desktop which includes the Docker GUI

Docker Desktop for Linux installation, which then points to:

Docker Desktop for Ubuntu installation. From this page, download the DEB package.

Then, set up Docker's Package Repository by following the provided command line instructions.

To then verify that Docker Engine was successfully installed, run

sudo docker run hello-world

Then return to the Docker Desktop for Ubuntu installation instructions.

Launch Docker Desktop

To start Docker Desktop for Linux, search Docker Desktop on the Applications menu and open it.

Or instead, from the terminal, run

systemctl --user start docker-desktop

Sign in into Docker Desktop

If you are unable to sign in into Docker Desktop for Linux, it is likely because you much enable pass

Install docker-compose

When trying to run docker-compose I was told it was not already installed even though I have installed Docker. Was given the following instructions to run

sudo snap install docker
sudo apt install docker-compose