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Install Docker Desktop on Fedora

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This page contains information on how to install, launch and upgrade Docker Desktop on a Fedora distribution.

Prerequisites#

To install Docker Desktop successfully, you must:

  • Meet the general system requirements.
  • Have a 64-bit version of Fedora 43 or later.
  • For a GNOME desktop environment you must install AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem GNOME extensions.
  • If you're not using GNOME, you must install gnome-terminal to enable terminal access from Docker Desktop:

console $ sudo dnf install gnome-terminal

Install Docker Desktop#

To install Docker Desktop on Fedora:

  1. Set up Docker's package repository.

  2. Download the latest RPM package. For checksums, see the Release notes.

  3. Install the package with dnf as follows:

console $ sudo dnf install ./docker-desktop-x86_64.rpm

By default, Docker Desktop is installed at /opt/docker-desktop.

The RPM package includes a post-install script that completes additional setup steps automatically.

The post-install script:

  • Sets the capability on the Docker Desktop binary to map privileged ports and set resource limits.
  • Adds a DNS name for Kubernetes to /etc/hosts.
  • Creates a symlink from /usr/local/bin/com.docker.cli to /usr/bin/docker. This is because the classic Docker CLI is installed at /usr/bin/docker. The Docker Desktop installer also installs a Docker CLI binary that includes cloud-integration capabilities and is essentially a wrapper for the Compose CLI, at/usr/local/bin/com.docker.cli. The symlink ensures that the wrapper can access the classic Docker CLI.

Launch Docker Desktop#

{{% include "desktop-linux-launch.md" %}}

Upgrade Docker Desktop#

Once a new version for Docker Desktop is released, the Docker UI shows a notification. You need to first remove the previous version and then download the new package each time you want to upgrade Docker Desktop. Run:

$ sudo dnf remove docker-desktop
$ sudo dnf install ./docker-desktop-x86_64.rpm

Next steps#