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Enable BuildKit Docker on Linux Dist, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora
#!/bin/bash
#
# https://docs.docker.com/build/buildkit/
# https://github.com/docker/buildx/releases/
# https://github.com/docker/buildx
## docker builder prune --all
## docker buildx du --verbose
## For Ubuntu 24.04 try: sudo apt install docker-buildx
## Or run the commands below.
#VERSION=v0.14.1
VERSION=$(curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} https://github.com/docker/buildx/releases/latest)
VERSION=${VERSION##*/}
mkdir -p $HOME/.docker/cli-plugins
wget https://github.com/docker/buildx/releases/download/$VERSION/buildx-$VERSION.linux-amd64 -O $HOME/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
chmod +x $HOME/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1
export COMPOSE_DOCKER_CLI_BUILD=1
echo 'export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1' >> $HOME/.profile
echo 'export COMPOSE_DOCKER_CLI_BUILD=1' >> $HOME/.profile
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No offense :) Your gist was the second google result when searching for "docker buildkit ubuntu", so I just wanted to document that buildx is already present in the official package repository.

Nice !!
I will add the command to the gist for Ubuntu 24.04.
Thanks,

@ceclinux
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works in Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. You really save my life. Thanks

@EnigmaticMachine
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Works for:

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="12" VERSION="12 (bookworm)" VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

Thanks1

@rawC1nnamon
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Works on Arch Linux!!

@yiliu30
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yiliu30 commented Nov 12, 2025

Awesome, thx!

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