image is being used by stopped container

Question

I am trying to delete a docker container by this command:

docker rmi <Image-Id> 

Obviously, I have replaced the Image-Id by the Id I get using:

docker images 

But I see the error below:

Error response from daemon: conflict: unable to delete <Image-ID> (must be forced) - image is being used by stopped container xxxxxxxxxxx 

Answer 1

You can also use --force , -f Force removal of the image

If you use the -f flag and specify the image’s short or long ID, then this command untags and removes all images that match the specified ID.

  docker rmi -f <image_id>  

Note: this command removes images being used by containers.

Answer 2

You need to delete the stopped container with docker rm, and then you can delete the image it uses with docker rmi.