Installing subuser

System Requirements

• Docker 1.3 or higher
• Python >= 3
• Git
• X11 and the xauth utility (You almost certainly have this)
• sudo (if you don’t want to become a member of the docker group)

Installation: Common steps

1. Add yourself to the sudo group (Note: if you are a member of the docker group this is not needed.).

$ sudo usermod -a -G sudo $USER

Install from your distributions package manager

• Arch linux AUR
• Debian sid
• Ubuntu
• pipy

Install with pip: Stable version

1. Install subuser from pip3:

   $ sudo pip3 install subuser
   

2. Add ~/.subuser/bin to your path by adding the line PATH=$HOME/.subuser/bin:$PATH to the end of your ~/.bashrc file.

3. Log out and then back in again.

4. Done!

Install from git: Development version

1. Download the subuser repository:

   $ cd
   $ git clone https://github.com/subuser-security/subuser
   

2. Add subuser/logic and ~/.subuser/bin to your path by adding the line PATH=$HOME/subuser/logic:$HOME/.subuser/bin:$PATH to the end of your .bashrc file.

3. Optional: Subuser can run in place. If you want to install the development version system wide you can do so with:

   sudo python3 setup.py install
   

Note

You will need to change the path to subuser/logic to refer to the location to which you downloaded subuser.

1. Log out and then back in again.
2. Done!

Source

The subuser sourcecode is maintained on github. You can find release tarbals here.