mleku on Nostr: i just discovered that installing the docker desktop app places things in a folder ...

i just discovered that installing the docker desktop app places things in a folder ~/.docker that causes commands invoking docker to look there for the docker socket.

docker: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///home/me/.docker/desktop/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?.

of course, the socket is /var/run/docker.sock for a standard system installation.

rm -rf ~/.docker

and it then tries to connect to the socket in /var/run instead.

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