how to install as docker plugin about app HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi.

I fully understand your confusion here
https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/plugin_install/ is about the docker plugin install command, which is designed to manage command line plugins (installation, enablement, etc) based on a docker image packaging of such plugins.

Docker app isn't distributed in this format (yet) so can't be installed by such a command. You have to download binary releases and manually install under .docker/cli-plugins. Please also note the whole support for CLI plugins is experimental, and as such won't be effective until you set DOCKER_CLI_EXPERIMENTAL=enabled.

I'll look into updating the docs

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yes indeed, I missed this one.
Thanks for reporting this usability issue.

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What do you think about :
https://github.com/docker/app/pull/667/files?file-filters%5B%5D=.Makefile&file-filters%5B%5D=.go&file-filters%5B%5D=.mk&file-filters%5B%5D=.yml&file-filters%5B%5D=No+extension#diff-04c6e90faac2675aa89e2176d2eec7d8

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@ndeloof nice. Proposed text is good, it identifies the engine/cli plugin confusion and provides instructions to enable experimental for cli.

For me it works.

The only sentence which I think shall be changed is:

Note: This requires a pre-release version of the Docker CLI

on line 248

My docker client reports 19.0.3, which does not seem to be pre-release, so the note seems to be obsolete.

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