Hello, Linux/Debian newbie here. I’ve been trying to install docker on a debian machine following these instructions: https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/debian/ Everything works, up untill the point where docker is actually installed using: $ sudo apt-get install docker-ce i’m getti…

I have the same problem. Here’s proof of my architecture… uname -r 4.9.0-7-amd64 When I do apt-get update, I see this warning… W: The repository ‘ https://download.docker.com/linux/debian stretch Release’ does not have a Release file.

OK, I think I solved the problem. Diagnosis cd /etc/apt/apt.conf.d Create a file. I named mine, 95custom. Add this line to the file: Debug::Acquire::https "true"; Do apt-get update and make note of what you find. Here’s what I found… Ign:2 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian stretch InR…

@terpz yes i did, couple of times. I just now did a complete reinstall of the system. at first I used a USB netinstall image (~380mb) and that downloaded everything it needed automatically. But I figured, maybe it missed something. So I did a reinstall with the 4.4Gb iso. But the problem remains. @…

So, after some more googling and forums; came the the shaming conclusion that I grabbed the wrong packages from debian.org . at first i had this: root@Optimus:~# uname -a Linux Optimus 4.9.0-8-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.130-2 (2018-10-27) i686 GNU/Linux which shows the PAE (or 32bits) kernel is ins…

[Debian 9 (stretch)] E: Unable to locate package docker-ce

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terpz (Martin Terp) December 27, 2018, 7:02pm 2

Sorry for the dumb questions, but just need to be sure.

Did you run apt-get update?
is your arch actually amd64?

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