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tyder

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2016-12-19

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No problems so far running 'Docker's Docker' on Devuan 6.1.1

I had expected problems with Docker on Devuan 6.1.1, but installing from Docker's Debian packages and running has gone very well so far.
One reason for being skeptical, is that I run essentially a live version of 6.1.1, with overlay file system, and that is incompatible with Docker. (Docker is based on overlays, so it needs a 'firm' basis.)
The way I have made this work on Debian, is to create /var/lib/docker as a symlink to a 'firm' basis with enough space, _before_ installing Docker.
So I did, the installation and hello-world test went fine.
Then I went on to something more demanding, rocker/rstudio 4.5.3. It's a full version of R and Rstudio, for use through a browser.
I used the same procedure as for Debian 11.2.0, and it worked fine at first attempt. Pointing to the localhost port I had given, I could use it the way I have done before.
I could even install packages from source, like RPostgreSQL, the R connector for PostgreSQL, and here things become a bit more interesting. The build first crashed because of a lacking Debian (Ubuntu here) package. But I could log into the container, do apt update and apt install (the missing) libpq-dev. In the LTS Ubuntu release Rocker is built upon, that is. Back to the browser, the R install downloaded the sources, compiled and installed.
Not too bad, two quite different Debian derivatives in operation, with no 'native' install whatsoever involved :-)

Last edited by tyder (Yesterday 19:49:21)