(EASY) How to uninstall docker completely on Ubuntu

Believe it or not, Docker is actually very easy to Uninstall.

For this example I am using Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS, but this should work with any other version of Ubuntu.

Step 1 - Uninstall All the docker packages:

sudo apt-get purge docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin docker-ce-rootless-extras

Step 2 - Delete all the other docker data like images, volumes, containers, configs as they don’t get removed automatically in the first step

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/containerd

And with that, you’ve completely removed docker from your Ubuntu OS… It’s that easy - I hope this helps!

Resources:

• https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/