Installation steps expired for windows?

[K4B4R4]

Greetings.

I've been trying to install 4cat using docker desktop (Win 64AMD) by following the steps given in the wiki. I've downloaded the .yml and .env files and checked them to be correct formats by the instructions. When i input the 'docker-compose up --detach' command i however get an error of either 'unable to get image 'digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat:stable': unexpected end of JSON input' or 'empty compose file'. Weirdly depending on the computer i use. Both have the files in the same directories and both are running windows 10 pro. Pardons in advance if my inexperience in these matters has overlooked a simple solution

I tried to explore for a solution on different forums, but cant seem to find a specific example (which might signal an attribute of dumdum).

[dale-wahl]

Those are both Docker issues. The empty compose file implies the file named docker-compose.yml has nothing in it (or perhaps is unreadable). On Windows type docker-compose.yml should show you what is in the file assuming you are using Command Prompt (docker compose uses docker-compose.yml by default as the file). If it shows nothing, it is empty. You need to be in the same directory as wherever you saved the docker-compose.yml file to run any Docker commands.

The unable to get image... is odder. I just checked and I can download 4cat:stable fine. Perhaps there was some other issue preventing Docker from downloading the image at the time you ran it. docker pull digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat:stable will pull the current stable image and do nothing else (so you can use that command to check if the problem is your .env or docker-compose.yml files or Docker's connection with Docker Hub).

Full instructions are here.

Please let us know if that helps or if you run into another issue.