From 37b9ce61ac5aa762cf0ad34d84bc1924807a7617 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastiaan van Steenis Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:54:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added Debian 8 note for adding backports Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Steenis --- docs/sources/installation/debian.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/sources/installation/debian.md b/docs/sources/installation/debian.md index e3fb6e2921..aeee1ecb1f 100644 --- a/docs/sources/installation/debian.md +++ b/docs/sources/installation/debian.md @@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ Docker is supported on the following versions of Debian: ## Debian Jessie 8.0 (64-bit) -Debian 8 comes with a 3.14.0 Linux kernel, and a `docker.io` package which -installs all its prerequisites from Debian's repository. +Debian 8 comes with a 3.16.0 Linux kernel, the `docker.io` package can be found in the `jessie-backports` repository. Reasoning behind this can be found here. Instructions how to enable the backports repository can be found here. > **Note**: > Debian contains a much older KDE3/GNOME2 package called ``docker``, so the @@ -20,6 +19,8 @@ installs all its prerequisites from Debian's repository. ### Installation +Make sure you enabled the `jessie-backports` repository, as stated above. + To install the latest Debian package (may not be the latest Docker release): $ sudo apt-get update