Once you’ve run my script, you should already have a fully functional Docker installation. Why are you then doing something that breaks it? Or are you still experiencing the same cgroups issues after running my script?

    -- mr-addams

Thanks for the report! This was fixed today. The issue was that lsb_release -cs on Devuan returns excalibur, but Docker's repository only uses Debian codenames (bookworm).
The fix adds a mapping: excalibur → bookworm, daedalus → bullseye, etc. Pull the latest version of the script and it should work now.

    — mr-addams

i tried to install docker with updated script (thanks for providing this tho). there is a bug i guess:

6. Adding Docker repository...
Hit:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security InRelease
Ign:3 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian excalibur InRelease
Hit:4 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-backports InRelease
Err:6 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian excalibur Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 108.138.7.88 443]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'https://download.docker.com/linux/debian excalibur Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Nice to be able to contribute a little back while the old brain is still functioning.

@mark0x01 — thanks for the thorough bug report! Here's the breakdown:                                                                                                                                                                             

Root cause: Two bugs in the script:                                                                                                                                                                                                               

1. Init script (line 109) had /usr/bin/dockerd hardcoded, but on Devuan the binary is at /usr/sbin/dockerd (Debian Policy requires system daemons in sbin/; Docker Inc puts them in bin/).
2. Error message (line 5) said docker-full-install.sh instead of antix-docker-install.sh.                                                                                                                                                         

What changed:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
- The init script (/etc/init.d/docker) now auto-detects dockerd via command -v → /usr/bin/dockerd → /usr/sbin/dockerd. This detection runs after Docker is already installed (step 11 in the script), so if dockerd is missing at that point — something really went wrong during install, and exit 1 is intentional for fail-fast diagnostics.                                                                                         
- Main script also uses pkill -f dockerd (no hardcoded path) for pre-install cleanup.
- Error message corrected to antix-docker-install.sh.
- Removed docker-model-plugin from default install (bloat for low-resource distros).                                                                                                                                                             
                                                               
Updated script:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mr-ad … install.sh                                                                                                                                               

Now works on antiX, Devuan, MX Linux and any Debian fork with sysVinit.

Thanks again — both bugs fixed upstream!

     — mr-addams

I used antix-docker-install.sh script to clean up and reinstall docker successfully, once I fixed a bug in it.

https://github.com/mr-addams/antix-docker-install

It has a bug, and non critical error.

In the script, change line 109 DOCKERD=/usr/bin/dockerd to DOCKERD=/usr/sbin/dockerd

and line 5 has the wrong script name.     echo "Run as root: sudo bash docker-full-install.sh"  should be antix-docker-install.sh

newbie here!

I just installed docker.io on Devuan 6 sysvinit. doing sudo service docker restart gives:

Stopping Docker: docker.
mount: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset: fsconfig() failed: cgroup: Unknown subsys name 'cpuset'.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
mount: /sys/fs/cgroup/memory: fsconfig() failed: cgroup: Unknown subsys name 'memory'.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
Starting Docker: docker.

What step i missed? what version of cgroups  we are using?