docker: unknown command: docker compose

[sebthom]

I installed docker via Toolbox2docker-29.3.0.exe on windows. The docker-compose plugin is present in C:\ProgramData\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-compose.exe but when executing docker compose I get:

> docker compose
docker: unknown command: docker compose

Run 'docker --help' for more information

As a workaround I copied C:\ProgramData\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-compose.exe to %USERPROFILE%\.docker\cli-plugins using:

mkdir %USERPROFILE%\.docker\cli-plugins
copy C:\ProgramData\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-compose.exe %USERPROFILE%\.docker\cli-plugins\

I didn't investigate any further I also don't know if this an issue with the latest release of the toolbox or something else but maybe you can reproduce it and if so address it.

Thanks a lot!

[kaosagnt]

Seems the Docker people removed the "legacy" cli-plugins location on windows with this commit.

docker/cli@1375933

The only filepath left outside of user profile is:

cli-plugins/manager/manager_windows.go‎

filepath.Join(os.Getenv("ProgramFiles"), "Docker", "cli-plugins")

Can you copy them into C:\ProgramFiles\Docker\cli-plugins and make sure this works.

you can also run:

docker info --format '{{range .ClientInfo.Plugins}}{{.Path}}:{{end}}'

and see what path is returned

[sebthom]

Thanks for figuring the root cause out.

Manually copying the binaries to C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins works.

[kaosagnt]

Thanks for confirming. I'll look at fixing the installer ASAP.

[kaosagnt]

This should be fixed in the 29.3.1 release.