docker-credential-desktop not installed or not available in PATH
May 21
I might have a bit of a messed Docker installation on my Mac.. At first I installed Docker desktop but then running it I learned that as I'm on an older Mac I had to install VirtualBox so I did following these steps:
enable writing on the
/usr/local/binfolder for usersudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/bininstall Docker-Machine
base=https://github.com/docker/machine/releases/download/v0.16.0 &&
curl -L $base/docker-machine-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) >/usr/local/bin/docker-machine &&
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-machine
install Xcode CLI..manually from dev account
Install Home Brew
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Install Docker + wget ( Using Brew)
brew install dockerbrew install wgetInstall bash completion scripts
base=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/machine/v0.16.0
for i in docker-machine-prompt.bash docker-machine-wrapper.bash docker-machine.bash
do
sudo wget "$base/contrib/completion/bash/${i}" -P /etc/bash_completion.d
done
enable the docker-machine shell prompt
echo 'PS1='[\u@\h \W$(__docker_machine_ps1)]\$ '' >> ~/.bashrcInstall VirtualBox, ExtensionPack and SDK: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
I now installed docker-compose (docker-compose version 1.29.2, build unknown) with home-brew but when running docker-compose up I get the following error:
docker.credentials.errors.InitializationError: docker-credential-desktop not installed or not available in PATH
which docker prints /usr/local/bin/docker.
Brew installations are in /usr/local/Cellar/docker/20.10.6 and /usr/local/Cellar/docker-compose/1.29.2.
As I see there is also a home-brew for docker-machine should I install docker-machine via home-brew instead?
What can I check to make sure that I use the docker installations from home-brew and wipe/correct the installations made from steps above?
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May 21
After a long googling I found out that the problem is with the config.json file.
The value for "credsStore" : "docker-credential-desktop" is the wrong one in:
{
"credsStore" : "docker-credential-desktop",
"stackOrchestrator" : "swarm",
"experimental" : "disabled"
}
I changed the "credsStore" key's value to "desktop" and compose now works as expected.
Some pointed out that credsDstore typo was the problem and fixed it with credDstore, but in my case the value was the problem, it works both with "credsStore" : "desktop" and "credStore" : "desktop".
Hope it'll help others starting out with Docker. Cheers.
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ln -s "/Applications/Docker.app/Contents//Resources/bin/docker-credential-desktop" "/usr/local/bin/docker-credential-desktop" command? I'm not running the app.. The post before it actually say what's the correct credStore value is depending on Docker version.. in my case is Docker version 20.10.6, build 370c289