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Pjore
3 min readMay 31, 2021

Hello Guys 🙋‍♀️ In this article we are going to perform the following task.

Task Description:

🔰 Launch a container on docker in GUI mode

🔰 Run any GUI software on the container

Let’s start the practical…….

First, install docker on your system by using the following command:

yum install docker

After start and enable the docker service

systemctl start docker

systemctl enable docker

Now we are going to pull the image by using the following command

docker pull centos:8

Let’s launch the docker container now…….

We need to install firefox in our container

Let's check whether it is working or not

Here, you can see an error related to the DISPLAY environment variable. So now we are going to set an environmental variable for it.

Go to your localhost and execute the following commands:

First, we are going to create a directory and Dockerfile

In Dockerfile we need to write the following comands

Let's built it……

docker build -t firefox .

If you check docker images you will find firefox image.

Let's run the command to access firefox

docker container run -it — env=“DISPLAY” — net=host firefox

after running this command you will get the following output

Task Completed Successfully!!!!!!

Thanks For Reading😊😊😊

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