How to Uninstall Docker from Ubuntu

25 days ago

Using APT

  1. Uninstall the Docker Engine, CLI, containerd, and Docker Compose packages
    sudo apt-get purge docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin docker-ce-rootless-extras
  2. Delete Docker and containerd data
    sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker  
    sudo rm -rf /var/lib/containerd
  3. Remove source list and keyrings
    sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list  
    sudo rm /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

You have to delete any edited configuration files manually.