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debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 7, <> line 19.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin:

With reference to this link, adding the following line in docker file does not work for me.

ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive

Instead, in the same link, this command works for me.

RUN echo 'debconf debconf/frontend select Noninteractive' | debconf-set-selections

This need to run ahead of apt-get. For example,

RUN echo 'debconf debconf/frontend select Noninteractive' | debconf-set-selections \     

&& sudo apt-get update -y \     

&& sudo apt-get install -y \        

gcc \        

g++ \        

zlib1g-dev \        

libncurses5-dev \        

libcurl4-openssl-dev \        

libxml2-dev \        

libfreetype6-dev \        

libxft-dev \        

python-pip \        

python-dev \        

wget \     

&& apt-get clean \     

&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Below are some of the commands I used quite often

List docker-machines and check docker-machine status.

docker-machine ls

Always check if docker-machine is running before running any further docker commands.

Once the docker-machine is running, connect the terminal to docker-machine

eval "$(docker-machine env default)"

Show all docker containers against current docker-machine. This includes containers that have exited or stopped. This allows us to check which container is running which image as well.

docker ps -a

Show all docker images. This allows us to check docker image tag, docker image size and date of creation

docker images

Create docker container with specific docker image. Probably will map to a drive so that the host machine can connect to docker container easier. In command below, ubuntu is the image name, 14.04 is the tag version. This command will switch the terminal to container terminal. 

docker run -ti -v $HOME/host/mapdrive:/usr/local/container/mapdrive --name containername ubuntu:14.04

To remove all running or exited containers

docker ps -aq | xargs docker rm

To remove all images in host machine

docker images -q | xargs docker rmi

Need bash access or command line access to docker container?

docker exec -it containerName bash