/var/run/docker.sock: no such file or directory. Are you trying to connect to a TLS-enabled daemon without TLS?

Question

I am very new to the docker when try to run docker info it gives me following error.

$ docker info
FATA[0000] Get http:///var/run/docker.sock/v1.17/info: dia         


        

Answer 1

This is because the docker service is not automatically started after an install.

You can start the docker service in Ubuntu and its derivatives (looking at you Linux Mint) by typing:

sudo service docker start

To check that docker started, this file should exist:

ls -la /var/run/docker.sock