Docker CE on RHEL - Requires: container-selinux >= 2.9

Question

I am trying to install Docker CE on RHEL using this link. This is my RHEL version:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Mai         


        

Answer 1

Update June 2019

What a dogs dinner. Unfortunately, the other answers didn't work for me.

For the most part, the official docker instructions for installing using a repository DID work.

sudo yum install -y yum-utils \
  device-mapper-persistent-data \
  lvm2

Followed by:

sudo yum-config-manager \
    --add-repo \
    https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

However, I had to modify the next command as follows (adding --nobest):

sudo yum install docker-ce --nobest

Finally, check the docker client:

docker --version
Docker version 18.09.7, build 2d0083d

Note also, the above works for standard RHEL AMI on AWS, but not for the Amazon Linux AMI type. May also find referencing this github issue insightful.

Added bonus, I found the following additional commands helpful:

Start the docker daemon:

sudo systemctl start docker.service

Give the current user (in my case ec2-user - check with whoami) rights to the docker group. This avoids running everything with sudo.

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

Now, logoff and login again as same user as before (in my case ec2-user).

At this point, everything should be working. Check the docker daemon:

docker image ls
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE

Answer 2

To resolve the following error I was facing to install docker-ce on RHEL-7

Error: Package: 3:docker-ce-18.09.5-3.el7.x86_64 (docker-ce-stable)
           Requires: container-selinux >= 2.9
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Please run following command before installing latest version of docker-ce

yum install -y http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/container-selinux-2.68-1.el7.noarch.rpm

Once previous command runs successfully then install docker-ce with following command

yum -y install docker-ce

once installation is done then run

systemctl start docker

Note : Run all these commands with root user

Answer 3

To update container-selinux I had to install epel-release first:

Add Centos-7 repository

wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo http://mirrors.aliyun.com/repo/Centos-7.repo

Install epel-release

yum install epel-release

Update container-selinux

yum install container-selinux

Answer 4

Error: Package: 2:container-selinux-2.74-1.el7.noarch (rhel-7-server-extras-rpms)

Requires: selinux-policy >= 3.13.1-216.el7

Installed: selinux-policy-3.13.1-192.el7_5.6.noarch (@rhel-7-server-rpms)

selinux-policy = 3.13.1-192.el7_5.6

there is dependency issue with the container-selinux version

to fix this error on rhel 7.x i have performed the below things

1) yum install http://vault.centos.org/centos/7.3.1611/extras/x86_64/Packages/container-selinux-2.9-4.el7.noarch.rpm

2) yum install -y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2

3) yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

4 ) yum install docker-ce

now start the docker service

Answer 5

The best way to resolve this one is. Download the latest container-selinux package from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/ into the VM or the Machine where docker needs to be installed. Error : sometime it will ask for red hat subscription to download from repo. we can do it manually with out subscription as below Run the below command this will install dependencies manually rpm -i container-selinux-2.107-3.el7.noarch.rpm then run the yum install docker-ce

thanks Saa

Answer 6

As with other answers, adding the "extras" subscribed channels to a CentOS 7 Spacewalk deployment solves this problem as well.