Nibodhika , 4 months ago

Ok, so I don’t know the specifics, this might not be entirely accurate, but this is a general step-by-step guide for Debian based distros like Mint.

Install docker

The first thing you need to do is install docker, this can be done via whatever GUI you use for a package manager or via the terminal using sudo apt install docker (I’m not sure docker is the name of the package, I’m just guessing, you can do an apt search docker to see what’s available)

Add yourself to dockers

This is likely not needed on Mint, but just in case your user should be in the docker group, i.e. run sudo gpasswd -a docker. I’m almost sure Mint does this by default.

Enable docker systemd

This also might not be needed, again I’m almost sure Mint does this for you when you install docker, but just in case the command is sudo systemctl enable docker

Reboot

Because there have been changes to your user groups you need to relogin, easier to reboot.

use docker

Now you have a system with docker, you can test this by running the following command docker run hello-world, if you see a bunch of text that contains “Hello from docker” docker is working.

setup a docker-compose file

Create a folder, and in that folder create a text file called docker-compose.yaml in that file. This file will tell docker what you want to run, for example to have Nextcloud (which is an awesome self-hosted drive alternative. I’m not going to teach you the specific services you want, you can figure those out by looking at their page on the linuxserver page or something) you can look here hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/nextcloud on how to write your docker-compose file, for example you could write:

<span style="color:#63a35c;">services</span><span style="color:#323232;">:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">nextcloud</span><span style="color:#323232;">:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">image</span><span style="color:#323232;">: </span><span style="color:#183691;">lscr.io/linuxserver/nextcloud:latest
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">container_name</span><span style="color:#323232;">: </span><span style="color:#183691;">nextcloud
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">environment</span><span style="color:#323232;">:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - </span><span style="color:#183691;">PUID=1000
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - </span><span style="color:#183691;">PGID=1000
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - </span><span style="color:#183691;">TZ=Etc/UTC
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">volumes</span><span style="color:#323232;">:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - </span><span style="color:#183691;">./config:/config
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - </span><span style="color:#183691;">./data:/data
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">ports</span><span style="color:#323232;">:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - </span><span style="color:#183691;">8080:80
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - </span><span style="color:#183691;">443:443
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="color:#63a35c;">restart</span><span style="color:#323232;">: </span><span style="color:#183691;">unless-stopped
</span>

Then open a terminal on that folder and run docker compose up -d after that is done open a browser and go to http://localhost:8080 and begin using Nextcloud.