Docker-Compose not installed with Docker Desktop

Question

I installed Docker Desktop v4.12.0 on windows 10 which installed docker v20.10.17.

I am trying to run docker-compose pull but get the response docker: 'compose' is not a docker command . I've tried reinstalling Docker Desktop but I still get the same error.

docker-compose --version and docker compose --version both return the same error message.

I'm new to docker and not sure if I've done something incorrectly. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

This can happen when we have older files laying around in windows path.

Try this:

where docker

or

where docker-compose

If you have multiple paths, maybe one of them is very old. In my case, I had to delete docker.exe and dockerd.exe in the root of c:\Program Files\Docker . The new files should be in the resources\bin folder.