Cannot install docker in a RHEL server

Question

I am getting Requires: fuse-overlayfs >= 0.7 error while installing docker in RHEL-7.

sudo yum install docker-ce
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 * epel: mirrors.syringanetworks.net
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package docker-ce.x86_64 3:20.10.2-3.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: containerd.io >= 1.4.1 for package: 3:docker-ce-20.10.2-3.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: docker-ce-cli for package: 3:docker-ce-20.10.2-3.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: docker-ce-rootless-extras for package: 3:docker-ce-20.10.2-3.el7.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package containerd.io.x86_64 0:1.4.3-3.1.el7 will be installed
---> Package docker-ce-cli.x86_64 1:20.10.2-3.el7 will be installed
---> Package docker-ce-rootless-extras.x86_64 0:20.10.2-3.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: fuse-overlayfs >= 0.7 for package: docker-ce-rootless-extras-20.10.2-3.el7.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: docker-ce-rootless-extras-20.10.2-3.el7.x86_64 (docker-ce-stable)
           Requires: fuse-overlayfs >= 0.7
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around

I already tried

sudo rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/fuse-overlayfs-0.7.2-6.el7_8.x86_64.rpm
Retrieving http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/fuse-overlayfs-0.7.2-6.el7_8.x86_64.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.TZLjHD: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID f4a80eb5: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
    libfuse3.so.3()(64bit) is needed by fuse-overlayfs-0.7.2-6.el7_8.x86_64
    libfuse3.so.3(FUSE_3.0)(64bit) is needed by fuse-overlayfs-0.7.2-6.el7_8.x86_64
    libfuse3.so.3(FUSE_3.2)(64bit) is needed by fuse-overlayfs-0.7.2-6.el7_8.x86_64

Answer 1

Note that I had to change the mirror to vault in the baseurl address of the accepted answer from

baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64

to:

baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64

Answer 2

I had this problem installing docker version 20 in Oracle Linux 7.9. Installing version 19 instead, there is no problem with dependencies and to install packages from CentOS Extras repository is not needed.

sudo yum install docker-ce-19.03.9 docker-ce-cli-19.03.9 containerd.io docker-compose-plugin

edit

To show all available versions

yum list docker-ce --showduplicates | sort -r

Answer 3

Building on top of @user3495504's answer, what we did to fix the problem was adding an entry on top of the file /etc/yum.repos.d/docker-ce.repo, with this content:

[centos-extras]
name=Centos extras - $basearch
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://centos.org/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

Then the installation command:

yum -y install slirp4netns fuse-overlayfs container-selinux

was successful.

[Edit]

• enabled gpgcheck

Answer 4

Had this problem too when trying to install Docker. This worked to get fuse-overlayfs

sudo yum install fuse3-devel
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/fuse-overlayfs-0.7.2-6.el7_8.x86_64.rpm
sudo yum localinstall fuse-overlayfs-0.7.2-6.el7_8.x86_64.rpm

I got the package url from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/

The next thing missing for me is slirp4netns >= 0.4. I'm going to try the same trick. And yes, that did work and the docker install went through

 sudo yum install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

Answer 5

Install the fuse3 libs package. That would provide the missing dependencies. And then try the fuse overlay package before proceeding to the docker install