Install Openshift Container Platform on Ubuntu 16.4

download oc here

https://github.com/openshift/origin/releases/tag/v3.7.0-alpha.1

untar the oc executable and put it somewhere in the path (e.g. /usr/local/bin )

install docker:

sudo apt install docker.io
#sudo groupadd docker // this should not be necessary!
sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami)
sudo reboot now
sudo service docker start
docker ps

oc cluster up

if it comes up with an error related to --insecure-registry, you can start with "oc cluster up --skip-registry-check=true"

It's really a struggle to make all this work... the whole integration Openshift-Docker is very environment-dependent, for instance on Ubuntu 17.4 I could not even install Docker... .pathetic... always something going wrong...