01-17-2020, 10:40 PM
While the above instructions do work and will install the aarch64 version of docker, I have to admit I made a mistake. The crux of my problem is that while the arch of the system is aarch64, apt is setup to install armhf packages. this can be seen by running dpkg --print-architecture the output is armhf. This explains why trying to install Docker from the arm64 repos was not working and it was behaving as if the packages did not exist for me. In short an easy to install docker is to follow the official directions here for armhf Debian. I will update the original post to reflect this as my instructions on the default install are BAD instructions.