docker-clean command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix docker-clean command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

docker-clean: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: docker-clean: command not found

In Ubuntu docker-clean is provided by docker-clean package.

docker-clean is:

docker-clean is simple Shell script utility to clean up the Docker Daemon, required Docker Daemon version (>= 1.9).

Usages:

docker-clean stop: Stops and removes all containers, cleans dangling volumes,and networks
docker-clean images: Removes all tagged and untagged images, stopped containers, dangling volumes, and networks
docker-clean run : Removes all stopped containers, untagged images, dangling volumes, and networks
docker-clean all: Stops and removes all containers, images, volumes and networks

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install docker-clean

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install docker-clean.

sudo apt -y install docker-clean

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install docker-clean

In this tutorial we learn how to fix docker-clean command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.