PlasmidFinder installation error

Question

[El Niño]

Hi guys,

As I've got to find a way to detect possible plasmids in my whole genome, I've been working to install and use PlasmidFinder software on my Linux Mint 19 computer.

So I follwowed this protocol

bitbucket.org/genomicepidemiology/plasmidfinder/src/master/

Then everything has been plain sailing, until the "Docker" part. I was completely lost and when I typed exactly the same command into my Terminal, I got this error message

docker: Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Post http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.39/containers/create: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied. See 'docker run --help'

This happened after I had run this command line:

docker -v $PLASMID_DB:/home/fox/plasmidfinder/plasmidfinder_db/

Can anybody help me with this problem?

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

See this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48957195/how-to-fix-docker-got-permission-denied-issue

It will need admin privileges but sounds like this is your own machine so that should be no problem.

Original instructions from docker are on this post-installation steps page.