docker-credential-desktop not installed or not available in PATH

Question

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:

1. enable writing on the /usr/local/bin folder for user

   sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/bin

2. install 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

3. install Xcode CLI..manually from dev account

4. Install Home Brew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

5. Install Docker + wget ( Using Brew)

   brew install docker

   brew install wget

6. Install 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

7. enable the docker-machine shell prompt

   echo 'PS1='[\u@\h \W$(__docker_machine_ps1)]\$ '' >> ~/.bashrc

8. Install 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?

Answer 1

Check your config.json and replace "credsStore" by "credStore"

{
  "stackOrchestrator" : "swarm",
  "experimental" : "disabled",
  "credStore" : "desktop"
}

Answer 2

just in ~/.docker/config.json change credsStore to credStore

Answer 3

I ran into a similar issue using wsl2 on windows 10 while trying to locally invoke an aws lambda function. I was getting docker.credentials.errors.InitializationError: docker-credential-desktop not installed or not available in PATH when running sam build --use-container. Running which docker-credential-desktop showed no results

Upon further inspection I found that docker-credential-desktop.exe was in PATH however. After a quick google, it seems like enabling the wsl2 backend in Docker Desktop for Windows 10 symlinks wsl/docker-desktop/cli-tools/usr/bin/docker-credentials-desktop.exe to /usr/bin/docker-credential-desktop.exe. To fix this I simply removed the symlink and created a new one without .exe

To check the link and remove it:

user@device:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/docker-credential-desktop.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 67 Jan  5 23:15 /usr/bin/docker-credential-desktop.exe -> /wsl/docker-desktop/cli-tools/usr/bin/docker-credential-desktop.exe
user@device:~$ sudo rm /usr/bin/docker-credential-desktop.exe

To create a new one without .exe and check it worked:

user@device:~$ sudo ln -s /wsl/docker-desktop/cli-tools/usr/bin/docker-credential-desktop.exe /usr/bin/docker-credential-desktop
user@device:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/docker-credential-desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 67 Jan 12 14:22 /usr/bin/docker-credential-desktop -> /wsl/docker-desktop/cli-tools/usr/bin/docker-credential-desktop.exe

After that I sourced .bashrc to update PATH and the problem was resolved. I verified this with which docker-credential-desktop and it now shows the location specified in the symlink above.