run dive without sudo

[dp-anto]

When I run dive test:latest I get:

Image Source: docker://test:latest
Extracting image from docker-engine... (this can take a while for large images)
> could not determine docker host: context "default": context not found: open /home/john/.docker/contexts/meta/37a8eec1ce19687d132fe29051dca629d164e2c4958ba141d5f4133a33f0688f/meta.json: no such file or directory
cannot fetch image
unable to parse docker host ``

Conversely when I run it with sudo, sudo dive test:latest, it works. Is there a way to run dive without using sudo? I was expecting not to need sudo given that my user (the one that is running dive) is already associated to the docker group that is the one need to connect to the Docker daemon and the dive process should inherit my supplementary groups.

[tree-1917]

Hello Sir,
This issue is not related to Dive itself, but to the fact that your user does not have access to the Docker daemon’s Unix socket:

/var/run/docker.sock

1. Check your current groups:

groups

If you do not see the docker group listed, this is the problem.

2. Add your user to the docker group:

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

You must logout and login again

4. After logging in again, test:

docker ps
dive test:latest

Both commands should now work without sudo.

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[dp-anto]

@tree-1917 This is the error I get sometimes if I do not sudo:

Image Source: docker://****************
Extracting image from docker-engine... (this can take a while for large images)
could not determine docker host: context "default": context not found: open /home/John/.docker/contexts/meta/37a8eec1ce19687d132fe29051dca629d164e2c4958ba141d5f4133a33f0688f/meta.json: no such file or directory
cannot fetch image
unable to parse docker host ``

but if then I prepend sudo it works.