Unable to install vim or nano inside docker container

Question

Trying to install inside a docker, either vim or nano but I only get this:

0% [Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com (91.189.88.152)]

Exit docker and do ping archive.ubuntu.com and I get reply, do the same time inside docker it does not respond.

What could be the problem?

Answer 1

First I create the docker:

sudo docker run -t -i ubuntu /bin/bash

Instead of this you can enter in a running docker with his number or name:

sudo docker exec -it be8aa338d656 bash

Then inside the docker run this code:

apt-get update
apt-get install vim nano

Answer 2

The solution is to run docker with:

docker run --net=host

Answer 3

It looks like your docker is unable to connect to internet. Try this:-

sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

Then restart:-

service docker restart

If still not working, read here:- My docker container has no internet

Answer 4

Absolutely no luck at all with apt or apt-get. The docker I am using from someone else doesn't seem to have the /etc/apt sources configured correct (or disabled). I need to edit the configurations.

Luckily dpkg and curl are available inside the container. I used the binaries for my amd64. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/2:7.4.712-2ubuntu4

mkdir /tmp/vim cd /tmp/vim

curl http://launchpadlibrarian.net/221875822/vim_7.4.712-2ubuntu4_amd64.deb > vim.deb curl http://launchpadlibrarian.net/221873815/vim-common_7.4.712-2ubuntu4_arm64.deb > vim-common.deb curl http://launchpadlibrarian.net/221875814/vim-runtime_7.4.712-2ubuntu4_all.deb > vim-runtime.deb curl https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/wily/amd64/vim/2:7.4.712-2ubuntu4 > vim.deb curl http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gpm/libgpm2_1.20.4-6.1_amd64.deb > libgpm2.deb

dpkg -i *.deb

It's not the best solution, but at least now I can edit the configuration files.

Answer 5

Some customized docker images have just the bare minimum dependencies to run. This sometimes means that even apt package manager is not be installed by default and recreating another docker image from scratch is not an option.

But, I realized that most docker images come preinstalled with yum package manager.

So you can install vim or nano using;

yum install vim

or

yum install nano

Answer 6

Here is how you can use wget to fetch and install a nano lib or binary or whatever it was called and then use it in to edit a file in the python:latest image.

$ cd ~
$ wget http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.4/nano-2.4.2.tar.gz

$ tar -xzf nano-2.4.2.tar.gz
$ cd nano-2.4.2
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install  # removed sudo from this line

test it

$ touch file
$ nano file
# close with `ctrl+z enter`
$ rm file # delete that test file

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UPDATE: apt-get worked for me... I bet other people weren't running update first.

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install nano