---
description: Instructions for installing Docker EE on RHEL
keywords: requirements, installation, rhel, rpm, install, uninstall, upgrade, update
redirect_from:
- /engine/installation/rhel/
- /installation/rhel/
- /engine/installation/linux/rhel/
title: Get Docker EE for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
---

{% assign linux-dist = "rhel" %}
{% assign linux-dist-url-slug = "rhel" %}
{% assign linux-dist-long = "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" %}
{% assign package-format = "RPM" %}
{% assign gpg-fingerprint = "77FE DA13 1A83 1D29 A418  D3E8 99E5 FF2E 7668 2BC9" %}

{% include ee-linux-install-reuse.md section="ee-install-intro" %}

## Prerequisites

Docker Community Edition (Docker CE) is not supported on {{ linux-dist-long }}.

### Docker EE repository URL

{% include ee-linux-install-reuse.md section="ee-url-intro" %}

### OS requirements

To install Docker EE, you need the 64-bit version of {{ linux-dist-long }} 7
running on an x86 hardware platform, or `s390x` (IBM Z) architecture.

In addition, you must use the `devicemapper` storage driver. On production
systems, you must use `direct-lvm` mode, which requires one or more dedicated
block devices. Fast storage such as solid-state media (SSD) is recommended.

### Uninstall old versions

Older versions of Docker were called `docker` or `docker-engine`. If these are
installed, uninstall them, along with associated dependencies.

```bash
$ sudo yum remove docker \
                  docker-common \
                  docker-selinux \
                  docker-engine-selinux \
                  docker-engine
```

It's OK if `yum` reports that none of these packages are installed.

The contents of `/var/lib/docker/`, including images, containers, volumes, and
networks, are preserved. The Docker EE package is now called `docker-ee`.

## Install Docker EE

{% include ee-linux-install-reuse.md section="ways-to-install" %}

### Install using the repository

Before you install Docker EE for the first time on a new host machine, you need
to set up the Docker repository. Afterward, you can install and update Docker EE
from the repository.

#### Set up the repository

{% include ee-linux-install-reuse.md section="set-up-yum-repo" %}

#### Install Docker EE

{% include ee-linux-install-reuse.md section="install-using-yum-repo" %}

#### Upgrade Docker EE

{% include ee-linux-install-reuse.md section="upgrade-using-yum-repo" %}

### Install from a package

{% include ee-linux-install-reuse.md section="install-using-yum-package" %}

#### Upgrade Docker EE

{% include ee-linux-install-reuse.md section="upgrade-using-yum-package" %}

## Uninstall Docker EE

{% include ee-linux-install-reuse.md section="yum-uninstall" %}

## Next steps

{% include ee-linux-install-reuse.md section="linux-install-nextsteps" %}