sudo: docker-compose: command not found

Question

I am trying to run docker-compose using sudo.

I have both docker and docker-compose installed on Ubuntu 16.01.

Due to an error while trying to download compo

Answer 1

If you have tried installing via the official docker-compose page, where you need to download the binary using curl:

curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.8.0/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Then do not forget to add executable flag to the binary:

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

If docker-compose is installed using python-pip

sudo apt-get -y install python-pip
sudo pip install docker-compose

try using pip show --files docker-compose to see where it is installed.

If docker-compose is installed in user path, then try:

sudo "PATH=$PATH" docker-compose

As I see from your updated post, docker-compose is installed in user path /home/user/.local/bin and if this path is not in your local path $PATH, then try:

sudo "PATH=$PATH:/home/user/.local/bin" docker-compose

Answer 2

I have same issue , i solved issue :

step-1 : download docker-compose using following command.

     1.  sudo su

     2. sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.21.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Step-2 : Run command

    chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Step-3 : Check docker-compose version

     docker-compose --version

Answer 3

Or, just add your binary path into the PATH. At the end of the bashrc:

... 
export PATH=$PATH:/home/user/.local/bin/

save the file and run:

source .bashrc

and the command will work.

Answer 4

If docker-compose is installed for your user but not installed for root user and if you need to run it only once and forget about it afterwords perform the next actions:

• Find out path to docker-compose:

    which docker-compose
  

• Run the command specifying full path to docker-compose from the previous command, eg:

    sudo /home/your-user/your-path-to-compose/docker-compose up
  

Answer 5

The output of dpkg -s ... demonstrates that docker-compose is not installed from a package. Without more information from you there are at least two possibilities:

1. docker-compose simply isn't installed at all, and you need to install it.

   The solution here is simple: install docker-compose.

2. docker-compose is installed in your $HOME directory (or other location not on root's $PATH).

   There are several solution in this case. The easiest is probably to replace:

   sudo docker-compose ...
   

   With:

   sudo `which docker-compose` ...
   

   This will call sudo with the full path to docker-compose.

   You could alternatively install docker-compose into a system-wide directory, such as /usr/local/bin.

Answer 6

On Ubuntu 16.04

Here's how I fixed this issue: Refer Docker Compose documentation

1. sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.21.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

2. sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

After you do the curl command , it'll put docker-compose into the

/usr/local/bin

which is not on the PATH. To fix it, create a symbolic link:

3. sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/docker-compose /usr/bin/docker-compose

And now if you do: docker-compose --version

You'll see that docker-compose is now on the PATH