How to install Docker on Manjaro 16.10

This quick Manjaro tutorial is going to show you how to install Docker on Manjaro 16.10. This tutorial also applicable to other Arch Linux based such as Antergos. The newest Docker version available from Pacman repository is version 1.12.

Steps to install Docker on Manjaro 16.10

Open Terminal console and type the following command to install Docker

sudo pacman -S docker

Output:

[manjaro@manjaro-pc ~]$ sudo pacman -S docker
[sudo] password for manjaro:
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (2) bridge-utils-1.6-1  docker-1:1.12.3-1

Total Download Size:   16,37 MiB
Total Installed Size:  75,29 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y

Start Docker

sudo systemctl start docker

Check Docker status

sudo systemctl status docker

If docker is up and running, you will see the following status message:

● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; disabled; vendor pres
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2016-12-25 16:54:17 WIB; 14s ago
     Docs: https://docs.docker.com
Main PID: 2617 (dockerd)
    Tasks: 17 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 15.8M
      CPU: 424ms
   CGroup: /system.slice/docker.service
           ├─2617 /usr/bin/dockerd -H fd://
           └─2638 docker-containerd -l unix:///var/run/docker/libcontainerd/dock

To start docker on boot, use this command

sudo systemctl enable docker

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