Trouble to install docker on my centos 8 VM

My dev machine is a CentOS 8 VM, and I'm trying to install docker on it, so I can locally create docker images. I'm basically following the docker tutorial here:

I added the docker repo and I needed to disable some packages because there were conflicts. But now I'm stuck at this part:

$ sudo yum install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

with the following error message:

Running transaction check
No available modular metadata for modular package 'container-selinux-2:2.155.0-1.module_el8.3.0+699+d61d9c41.noarch', it cannot be installed on the system
No available modular metadata for modular package 'fuse-overlayfs-1.3.0-2.module_el8.3.0+699+d61d9c41.x86_64', it cannot be installed on the system
No available modular metadata for modular package 'libslirp-4.3.1-1.module_el8.3.0+475+c50ce30b.x86_64', it cannot be installed on the system
No available modular metadata for modular package 'slirp4netns-1.1.8-1.module_el8.3.0+699+d61d9c41.x86_64', it cannot be installed on the system
The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction.
You can remove cached packages by executing 'yum clean packages'.
Error: No available modular metadata for modular package

I tried $ sudo dnf clean all and $ sudo yum clean packages with no avail.

I'm not super familiar with yum and CentOS, so maybe I'm missing something trivial.

1 Answer

Okay, the issues was that I had disabled container-tools with sudo dnf -y module enable container-tools. Because it was creating issues with conflicting versions when I tried to install docker. I had to re-enable container-tools and then install the docker packages with sudo dnf install docker-ce --nobest critical here was to use the --nobest option to ignore certain conflicts.