# Installing Community Plugins in Docker
**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/installing-community-plugins-in-docker/7106
**Category:** Tutorials
**Created:** [November 20, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/installing-community-plugins-in-docker/7106 "2018-11-20T19:48:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/installing-community-plugins-in-docker/7106/1 "2018-11-20T19:48:25Z")
Installing Community Plugins ([https://library.qiime2.org](https://library.qiime2.org)) is a breeze with Docker!
First, let's launch an interactive Docker container:
```bash
docker run --rm -it --name my-custom-container qiime2/core:2018.11 /bin/bash
```
Next, pick a plugin to install: I will try out @cduvallet's [q2-perc-norm](https://library.qiime2.org/plugins/q2-perc-norm/5/). Running the current install command:
```bash
# This plugin is just an example, please follow the directions for
# the plugin (or plugins) you wish to install!
conda install -c cduvallet q2_perc_norm -y
qiime dev refresh-cache
```
Then, **in another terminal** , I will run the following:
```bash
docker ps
```
Which should return:
```bash
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
59a4d6df8220 qiime2/core:2018.11 "/usr/bin/tini -- /b…" 5 seconds ago Up 4 seconds my-custom-container
```
We want to make a note of the `CONTAINER ID` for the container named `my-custom-container`, we want to use that in the next command:
```bash
docker commit 59a4d6df8220 thermokarst-qiime2/2018.11-with-q2-perc-norm:latest
```
Now we should have a new image registered locally:
```bash
docker images
```
```bash
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
thermokarst-qiime2/2018.11-with-q2-perc-norm latest c6818a93b556 5 seconds ago 7.16GB
qiime2/core 2018.11 3980460694d5 6 days ago 6.94GB
qiime2/core latest 3980460694d5 6 days ago 6.94GB
continuumio/miniconda3 latest d3c252f8727b 7 weeks ago 422MB
qiime2/core 2018.8 a1717e0e9bd7 2 months ago 6.31GB
```
Cool! Now if we run our new container, instead of the official QIIME 2 docker container we will have our new plugin available to us:
```bash
docker run --rm -it \
-u $(id -u):$(id -g) \
-v $(pwd):/data \
thermokarst-qiime2/2018.11-with-q2-perc-norm:latest \
qiime perc-norm
```
```bash
Usage: qiime perc-norm [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Description: This QIIME 2 plugin performs a model-free normalization
procedure where features (i.e. bacterial taxa) in case samples are
converted to percentiles of the equivalent features in control samples
within a study prior to pooling data across studies.
Plugin website: http://www.github.com/cduvallet/q2-perc-norm
Getting user support: Raise an issue on the github repo:
https://github.com/cduvallet/q2-perc-norm
Options:
--version Show the version and exit.
--citations Show citations and exit.
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
percentile-normalize Percentile normalization
```
Woohoo!! 🦖
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### Author:  [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/installing-community-plugins-in-docker/7106/2 "2018-11-27T04:12:11Z")
An off-topic reply has been split into a new topic: [Trouble installing community plugin in docker on Windows](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/trouble-installing-community-plugin-in-docker-on-windows/7177)
Please keep replies on-topic in the future.
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### Author:  [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/installing-community-plugins-in-docker/7106/3 "2018-11-26T18:11:43Z")
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### Author:  [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/installing-community-plugins-in-docker/7106/4 "2018-11-27T04:11:37Z")