Fail to install due to docker socket file not in right place.

[NeerajGartia21]

Description

while setting up Velacore using velad install, the following error occurred.

The following three containers are running.

System info

MacOS ventura 13.1

[chivalryq]

Hi, what's your docker version? Are you using docker desktop?

[NeerajGartia21]

Docker version is 20.10.20 and I'm using docker desktop.

[chivalryq]

Can you check whether /var/run/docker.sock is ok?

[NeerajGartia21]

docker.sock is not there in /var/run

it is in /Users/neerajgartia/.docker/run/docker.sock.

[NeerajGartia21]

Thanks @chivalryq , The issue got resolved by running sudo ln -s $HOME/.docker/run/docker.sock /var/run/docker.sock Now Velacore is installed perfectly.

[NeerajGartia21]

vela CLI is not installed and its showing

fail to install vela CLI: Fail to create symlink: symlink /usr/local/bin/velad /usr/local/bin/vela: permission denied

[chivalryq]

You can create a symlink from /usr/local/bin/velad to /usr/local/bin/vela @NeerajGartia21

[NeerajGartia21]

Thanks @chivalryq , It got successfully installed.

[chivalryq]

Cool! I'm gonna close this issue since it's addressed.

[justenwalker]

@NeerajGartia21 @chivalryq

If you run Docker Desktop, /var/run/docker.sock is no longer created. See: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/6529

A work-around without needing to sudo ln -s is to explicitly set the DOCKER_HOST environment variable before running velad:

export DOCKER_HOST="unix://$HOME/.docker/run/docker.sock"
velad install

[chivalryq]

@justenwalker Great job! I'll reopen the issue before velad can detect the alternate path for docker socket.