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

After a long googling I found out that the problem is with the config.json file. The "credsStore" : "docker-credential-desktop" is wrong one in :

{
  "credsStore" : "docker-credential-desktop",
  "stackOrchestrator" : "swarm",
  "experimental" : "disabled"
} 

changed the "credsStore" key 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.