How to remove docker completely from ubuntu 14.04

Question

I installed Docker in Ubuntu while back but when I tried to remove the Docker still exist in the system. I followed this https://stackoverflow.com/a/31313851/2340159 but didn't work.

Answer 1

Apparently, the system I was using had the docker-ce not Docker. Thus, running below command did the trick.

sudo apt-get purge docker-ce

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker

Answer 2

Probably your problem is that for Docker that has been installed from default Ubuntu repository, the package name is docker.io

Or package name may be something like docker-ce. Try running

dpkg -l | grep -i docker

to identify what installed package you have

So you need to change package name in commands from https://stackoverflow.com/a/31313851/2340159 to match package name. For example, for docker.io it would be:

sudo apt-get purge -y docker.io
sudo apt-get autoremove -y --purge docker.io
sudo apt-get autoclean

It adds:

The above commands will not remove images, containers, volumes, or user created configuration files on your host. If you wish to delete all images, containers, and volumes run the following command:

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker

Remove docker from apparmor.d:

sudo rm /etc/apparmor.d/docker

Remove docker group:

sudo groupdel docker

Answer 3

This removes "docker.io" completely from ubuntu sudo apt-get purge docker.io