How to Fix docker.errors.DockerException: Error while fetching server API version: HTTPConnection.request() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘chunked’

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You will most likely see this error even on a fresh Ubuntu installation. It’s really strange how nobody caught that.

Yes, it’s frustrating, I know especially if you’re very busy.

it is possible to that this error is related to some python modules/libraries

 requests<2.29.0′ and ‘urllib3<2.0 according to the ticket below. They suggest downgrading but I prefer not to do that.

https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphafold/issues/867

The Solution how to fix the docker error:server API version: HTTPConnection.request() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘chunked’ 

The way to fix this is to use docker compose v2

On Ubuntu linux you can install this by running this command.

Initially I just tried docker-compose2 but the developers wanted to be more verbose I guess.

To install Docker Compose v2 run this command as root.

sudo apt install -y docker-compose-v2

The difference is that you will now use compose as a docker subcommand 

e.g. docker compose and not like you used to docker-compose (dash separated).

New Command

docker compose ....

if you get a docker error docker: ‘compose’ is not a docker command. you need to really install docker-compose-v2 and not skip steps 🙂

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