Nvidia-docker: Unable to locate package nvidia-docker2 when installing using apt-get

[abdallah197]

_I've tried installing nvidia-docker2 using apt-get through terminal but it keeps showing me this output _

sudo apt-get install nvidia-docker2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-docker2

i used to install nvidida-docker2
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-docker2

---

i am using

• [ ] Linux ab 4.4.0-121-generic #145-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 13 13:47:23 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

• [ ] red kernel output lines from dmesg
[ 2.808644] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found [ 2.808647] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 2.808644] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found [ 2.808647] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through

• [ ] when i run nvidia-smi -a output is: nvidia-smi:commandnot found

• [ ] Docker version from docker version:
  Version: 18.03.0-ce
  API version: 1.37

• [ ] NVIDIA packages version from dpkg -l '*nvidia*' _or_ rpm -qa '*nvidia*':

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  nvidia-390     390.48-0ubun amd64        NVIDIA binary driver - version 39
un  nvidia-common  <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  nvidia-driver- <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  nvidia-legacy- <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  nvidia-libopen <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  nvidia-libopen <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  nvidia-opencl- <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  nvidia-opencl- 390.48-0ubun amd64        NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
un  nvidia-persist <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  nvidia-prime   0.8.2        amd64        Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii  nvidia-setting 396.18-0ubun amd64        Tool for configuring the NVIDIA g
un  nvidia-setting <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  nvidia-smi     <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  nvidia-vdpau-d <none>       <none>       (no description available)

• [ ] NVIDIA container library version from nvidia-container-cli -V output is:
  nvidia-container-cli: command not found

• [ ] NVIDIA container library logs (see troubleshooting)

• [ ] Docker command, image and tag used

[flx42]

Are you on ubuntu 14.04? If yes, you are facing the following problem: #714
It's not a problem we can fix on our side though, I've contacted the GitHub support.

[abdallah197]

@flx42 i am actually in ubuntu 16.04 LTS

[flx42]

Ok, what were the instructions you followed? Do you have any error message when adding the repository?

[abdallah197]

I've followed the instructions listed in this page Installation (version 2.0)

i've tried removing nvidia-docker v1 at first like in the instructions using
docker volume ls -q -f driver=nvidia-docker | xargs -r -I{} -n1 docker ps -q -a -f volume={} | xargs -r docker rm -f
sudo apt-get purge nvidia-docker
the output for the second command was:
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-docker

Afterward tried to install nvidia-docker2 using:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-docker2
the output was:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-docker2

[abdallah197]

I fixed the issue by adding the repository at first from here https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/

[JunningHuang]

@abdallah197 Hi, I can't understand the Repository configuration on Debian-based distributions in the link.

`curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/gpgkey | \
  sudo apt-key add -
distribution=$(. /etc/os-release;echo $ID$VERSION_ID)

curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/$distribution/nvidia-docker.list | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-docker.list

sudo apt-get update

What is $ID and $VERSION_ID in this configuration?