# Seedless install?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/seedless-install/36075
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [November 27, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seedless-install/36075 "2015-11-27T00:46:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@BigSlacker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BigSlacker)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seedless-install/36075/1 "2015-11-27T00:46:17Z")
Hello All!
Simple question, how can I do the docker install and not seed the databases with the sample categories and topics?
I tried deleting them but not all of them could be deleted.
thanks,
Ron
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seedless-install/36075/2 "2015-11-27T01:07:14Z")
See:
> [@Can Discourse ship frequent Docker images that do not need to be bootstrapped?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-ship-frequent-docker-images-that-do-not-need-to-be-bootstrapped/33205):
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> There is this [open issue](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/issues/186) (which I just closed) on Discourse Docker repo asking Discourse should behave like a standard docker image a docker user excepts to be able to run discourse without a special launcher. to define multiple containers (redis, postgres, discourse,..), links and volumes, docker-compose should be used instead. [Docker Compose | Docker Docs](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) The question is somewhat misguided, but I would like to address a broader one of Can Discourse ship frequent Docker images that do …
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### Author:  [@BigSlacker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BigSlacker)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seedless-install/36075/3 "2015-11-27T01:26:20Z")
Apologies, but I literally only started using docker today. That’s a very long,detailed thread. Is there a short answer?
I just want to delete some seeded data 😕