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Please support elementaryOS 8.0

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, shell, ubuntu

Research direction

Start by reading the get.docker.com installation script's distribution-detection logic and compare it with the provided /etc/os-release values. Verify that elementaryOS 8 is treated as Ubuntu 24.04 (noble), not Debian trixie, and confirm that the installation reaches the Docker repository successfully on a fresh elementaryOS 8 system.

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Description

I tried to run
curl https://get.docker.com | sudo sh and a fresh elementaryOS 8.0 stable install

The error I got is

curl https://get.docker.com | sudo sh
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 22592  100 22592    0     0  57572      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 57632
# Executing docker install script, commit: 4c94a56999e10efcf48c5b8e3f6afea464f9108e
+ sh -c apt-get -qq update >/dev/null
+ sh -c DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y -qq install ca-certificates curl >/dev/null
+ sh -c install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
+ sh -c curl -fsSL "https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg" -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
+ sh -c chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
+ sh -c echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian trixie stable" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
+ sh -c apt-get -qq update >/dev/null
E: The repository 'https://download.docker.com/linux/debian trixie Release' does not have a Release file.

I guess that's because the distro could not be identified correctly?
ElementaryOS 8.0 is based on Ubuntu 24.04 and should be treated like it is an Ubuntu 24.04

The contents of

/etc/lsb-release

DISTRIB_ID=elementary
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8
DISTRIB_CODENAME=circe
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="elementary OS 8"

/etc/os-release

PRETTY_NAME="elementary OS 8"
NAME="elementary OS"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:elementary:elementary_os:8"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8"
VERSION_CODENAME=circe
ID=elementary
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
HOME_URL="https://elementary.io/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://elementary.io/docs/learning-the-basics"
SUPPORT_URL="https://elementary.io/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://docs.elementary.io/contributor-guide/feedback/reporting-issues"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://elementary.io/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
LOGO=distributor-logo
UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
UBUNTU_PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS"
UBUNTU_NAME="Ubuntu"
UBUNTU_VERSION_ID="24.04"
UBUNTU_VERSION="24.04.1 LTS (Noble Numbat)"
UBUNTU_VERSION_CODENAME=noble
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