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Ubuntu – Docker on windows wsl not running daemon

I few days ago I installed docker in my WSL version 2 on windows. On Ubuntu
I used the following script provided by this page:

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/install-docker-in-wsl-2-without-docker-desktop

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh

The problem is that after installing it, docker seems to be ok, but the docker daemon is not working

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As you can see I start the service but if then I check the status it says is not running and also when trying to execute a docker compose or something like that also show the error that the docker daemon is not running

What should I check? I have used docker desktop always but I can not use it now so I have to just use docker in WSL

Thanks in advance

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  1. 0

    You have to issue:

    sudo systemctl start docker.service
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  2. 0

    Follow these steps to use docker in your WSL2 Distro

    1. Check if you have enabled systemd in your WSL2. Open your /etc/wsl.conf and add following line:
    [boot]
systemd=true

    Restart your WSL2 Distro

    wsl --shutdown YOUR_DISTRO
wsl -d YOUR_DISTRO

    1. Install docker

    2. enable the docker daemon with systemd

    sudo systemd start docker
    1. check the output of journalctl
    journalctl -u docker.service
    1. Test your installation with
    sudo docker run hello-world
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