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Discussion on: Understanding Docker: part 4 – Docker images

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Aurélie Vache

Yes if you try to remove an image and a running container exists, rmi command will not be a success.

BUT you can force a remove image command :-) :

$ docker rmi ubuntu:latest
Error response from daemon: conflict: unable to remove repository reference "ubuntu:latest" (must force) - container 988cb10f88b8 is using its referenced image f643c72bc252

$ docker rmi ubuntu:latest --force
Untagged: ubuntu:latest
Untagged: ubuntu@sha256:c95a8e48bf88e9849f3e0f723d9f49fa12c5a00cfc6e60d2bc99d87555295e4c