docker login fails on a server with no X11 installed

Question

I am trying to deploy a docker configuration with images on a private docker registry.

Now, every time I execute docker login registry.example.com, I get the

Answer 1

You can remove the offending package golang-docker-credential-helpers without removing all of docker-compose.

The following worked for me on a server without X11 installed:

dpkg -r --ignore-depends=golang-docker-credential-helpers golang-docker-credential-helpers

and then

echo 'foo' | docker login mydockerrepo.com -u dockeruser --password-stdin

Source:

bug reported in debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910823#39
bug reported on ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/docker-compose/+bug/1796119