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docker-compose installation instructions did not work on Mac with arm64 #22723

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Is this a docs issue?

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Information is incorrect

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After following the instructions I had docker, but not docker-compose. I was able to fix the problem by downloading the correct docker-compose from github. I've seen some documentation that tries to generalize this using "latest" rather than a specific version number and uname -s and uname -m. Unfortunately that yields docker-compose-Darwin-arm64 as the package name, which is incorrect. Downloading that package and moving it into docker-compose in the installed Docker Desktop image, then changing the permissions and ownership to match the other files seems to yield the desired results.

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https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

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Add instructions on how to add docker-compose to Docker Desktop on the Mac. Perhaps it could be the method I used. Alternately, perhaps Homebrew would do the trick.

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