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Install Docker Desktop on Ubuntu

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Docker Desktop terms

Commercial use of Docker Desktop in larger enterprises (more than 250 employees or more than $10 million USD in annual revenue) requires a paid subscription.

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

Prerequisites#

To install Docker Desktop successfully, you must:

  • Meet the general system requirements.
  • Have an x86-64 system with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS or 24.04 LTS.
  • 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 apt install gnome-terminal

Install Docker Desktop#

Recommended approach to install Docker Desktop on Ubuntu:

  1. Set up Docker's package repository. See step one of Install using the apt repository.

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

  3. Install the package using apt:

console $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt install ./docker-desktop-amd64.deb

[!NOTE]

At the end of the installation process, apt displays an error due to installing a downloaded package. You can ignore this error message.

text N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root, as file '/home/user/Downloads/docker-desktop.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

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

The DEB 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#

When a new version for Docker Desktop is released, the Docker UI shows a notification. You need to download the new package each time you want to upgrade Docker Desktop and run:

$ sudo apt install ./docker-desktop-amd64.deb

Next steps#