image is being used by stopped container

Question

I am trying to delete a docker container by this command:

docker rmi 

Obviously, I have replaced the Image-Id by the Id I get u

Answer 1

You may also find that you have stopped containers that are causing the lock. Remove these first using:

docker rm  $(docker ps -q -a)

Here we are listing the docker processes by just the ID and then removing those; however, docker rm will only remove stopped containers.

Next go back and remove the images using:

docker image rm