Why is Docker installed but not Docker Compose? - docker

Question

I have installed docker on CentOS 7 by running following commands,
curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
systemctl enable docker && systemctl start docker
docker run hello-world
NOTE: helloworld runs correctly and no issues.
however when I try to run docker-compose (docker-compose.yml exists and valid) it gives me the error on CentOS only (Windows version works fine for the docker-compose file)
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose: line 1: {error:Not Found}: command not found

Answer 1

You also need to install Docker Compose. See the manual. Here are the commands you need to execute
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.12.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo mv /usr/local/bin/docker-compose /usr/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/docker-compose
Note:
Make sure that the link pointing to the GitHub release is not outdated!. Check out the latest releases on GitHub.

Answer 2

I'm installing on a Raspberry Pi 3, with Raspbian 8. The curl method failed for me (got a line 1: Not: command not found error upon asking for docker-compose --version) and the solution of #sunapi386 seemed a little out-dated, so I tried this which worked:
First clean things up from previous efforts:
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo pip uninstall docker-compose
Then follow this guidance re docker-compose on Rpi:
sudo apt-get -y install python-pip
sudo pip install docker-compose
For me (on 1 Nov 2017) this results in the following response to docker-compose --version:
docker-compose version 1.16.1, build 6d1ac219

Answer 3

If you installed docker by adding their official repository to your repository list, like:
$ curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo add-apt-repository \
"deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
$(lsb_release -cs) \
stable"
Just do:
$ sudo apt-get install docker-compose
In case on RHEL based distro / Fedora:
$ sudo dnf install docker-compose

Answer 4

UPDATE May 2022
Since April 2022 docker compose V2 is GA and it's now part of docker desktop. You can see all the related info here.
Compose V1 is now marked as deprecated.
Original answer:
docker compose v1 is a separate install. To install v1 follow instructions here.
docker compose v2 is currently a separate install but will be integrated into docker at some point, when it's ready. It has been conceived as a docker plugin. At this time, if you want docker compose v2, since this commit you can do:
sudo apt update \
&& sudo apt install docker-compose-plugin
with apt or the equivalent for yum. That will install the new docker compose V2 as a plugin.

Answer 5

If you're using ubuntu and docker compose works but docker-compose doesn't, and you need the old docker-compose syntax to be available (maybe a 3rd party library uses it) you can fix it by following these steps:
the docker-compose plugin is probably installed under /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose (make sure it is)
create a symlink to it:
sudo ln -s /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose /usr/bin/docker-compose
Now docker-compose should be available
Update:
If docker-compose is no where to be found on the mentioned path, you can download it manually from release page for your operating system and then move the downloaded file and make it executable.
cd ~/Downloads
sudo mv ./docker-compose-* /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Answer 6

I'm on debian, I found something quite natural to do :
apt-get install docker-compose
and it did the job
(not tested on centos)

Answer 7

They changed the syntax. Now it is written like this:
docker compose [OPTIONS] COMMAND
docker compose ps
Now compose is plugin! But other doc pages have old syntax.
How I should support compatibility?!
UPDATE:
If you run script it can get compose command:
# docker-compose.sh
if docker compose version > /dev/null ; then
echo "docker compose"
else
echo "docker-compose"
fi
# other.sh
DOCKER_C=$($BASEDIR/docker-compose.sh)
echo "docker command is: $DOCKER_C"
Living on the crutches, thanks Docker command (:

Answer 8

I'm installing on a Raspberry Pi 3, on Raspbian OS. The curl method didn't resolve to a valid response. It also said {error: Not Found}, I took a look at the URL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.11.2/docker-compose-Linux-armv7l and it was not valid. I guess there was no build there.
This guide https://github.com/hypriot/arm-compose worked for me.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https
echo "deb https://packagecloud.io/Hypriot/Schatzkiste/debian/ jessie main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hypriot.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 37BBEE3F7AD95B3F
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-compose

Answer 9

first of all please check if docker-compose is installed,
$ docker-compose -v
If it is not installed, please refer to the installation guide https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/
If installed give executable permission to the binary.
$ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
check if this works.

Answer 10

Tried to install docker-compose on CentOS using curl per docker docs (for Linux). After those steps it returned an error
docker-compose -v
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose: line 1: Not: command not found
Funny thing docker-compose file literally contains just "Not Found" on line 1 (it should be a binary)
cat /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
Not Found
That means a github link I tried to curl from does not exist. My unsuccessful link was:
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/2.2.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
Running uname -s and uname -m locally you can see what needs to be added to a download url
uname -s
Linux
uname -m
x86_64
Trying the url in a browser
https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/2.2.2/docker-compose-linux-x86_64
shows that page was not found.
A problem they added "v" to a version, as in v2.2.2. So a download url should be with "v"
https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.2.2/docker-compose-linux-x86_64. Their releases: https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/
This worked (attention v2.2.2)
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.2.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
docker-compose -v
Docker Compose version v2.2.2

Answer 11

Refered to the answers given above (I do not have enough reputation to refer separately to individual solutions, hence I do this collectively in this place), I want to supplement them with some important suggestions:
docker-compose you can install from the repository (if you have this package in the repository, if not you can adding to system a repository with this package) or download binary with use curl - totourial on the official website of the project - src: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install /
docker-compose from the repository is in version 1.8.0 (at least at me). This docker-compose version does not support configuration files in version 3. It only has version = <2 support. Inthe official site of the project is a recommendation to use container configuration in version 3 - src: https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file / compose-versioning /. From my own experience with work in the docker I recommend using container configurations in version 3 - there are more configuration options to use than in versions <3. If you want to use the configurations configurations in version 3 you have to do update / install docker-compose to the version of at least 1.17 - preferably the latest stable. The official site of the project is toturial how to do this process - src: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/
when you try to manually remove the old docker-compose binaries, you can have information about the missing file in the default path /usr/local/bin/docker-compose. At my case, docker-compose was in the default path /usr/bin/docker-compose. In this case, I suggest you use the find tool in your system to find binary file docker-compose - example syntax: sudo find / -name 'docker-compose'. It helped me. Thanks to this, I removed the old docker-compose version and added the stable to the system - I use the curl tool to download binary file docker-compose, putting it in the right path and giving it the right permissions - all this process has been described in the posts above.
Regards,
Adam

Answer 12

just use brew:
brew install docker-compose

Answer 13

A lot of suggestions for Ubuntu OS, but imho the easiest solution is to just create an alias. (if docker compose is already installed)
Steps:
ls -la inside your ~ directory to see if there is a .bash_aliases
if not just create it (touch, nano... or simply with gedit) gedit .bash_aliases
(the above steps can be skipped and just add your aliases inside .bashrc)
add the alias alias docker-compose="docker compose"
make the aliases available in your current session: source ~/.bashrc

Answer 14

The above solutions didn't work for me. But I found this that worked:
sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip python3-dev
sudo apt-get remove docker docker-engine docker.io
curl -fsSL get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sudo sh get-docker.sh
sudo pip3 install docker-compose
#sudo docker-compose -f docker-compose-profess.yml pull ofw
sudo usermod -a -G docker $USER
sudo reboot

Answer 15

For installing Docker Compose v1, you can install as following:
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
docker-compose --version
For installing Docker Compose v2, you can refer here.
For command compatibility between the new compose and the old docker-compose, you can refer here.

Answer 16

From the official docs:
If you installed Docker Desktop/Toolbox for either Windows or Mac, you
already have Docker Compose! Play-with-Docker instances already have
Docker Compose installed as well. If you are on a Linux machine, you
will need to install Docker Compose.
For that, you need to refer to the Pre-existing Docker Installation section.

Answer 17

Installing docker doesn't mean that you've installed docker-compose. It has as prerequisitions that you've already installed the docker engine which you've already done. After that you're able to install docker-compose following this link for Centos 7.

Answer 18

docker-compose is currently a tool that utilizes docker(-engine) but is not included in the distribution of docker.
Here is the link to the installation manual:
https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/
TL;DR:
curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.8.0/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/bin/docker-compose
(1.8.0 will change in the future)

Answer 19

I suggest using the official pkg on Mac. I guess docker-compose is no longer included with docker by default: https://docs.docker.com/toolbox/toolbox_install_mac/

Answer 20

On Linux, you can download the Docker Compose binary from the Compose repository release page on GitHub. Follow the instructions from the link, which involve running the curl command in your terminal to download the binaries. These step-by-step instructions are also included below.
1:Run this command to download the current stable release of Docker Compose:
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.26.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
To install a different version of Compose, substitute 1.26.2 with the version of Compose you want to use.
2:Apply executable permissions to the binary:
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
Note: If the command docker-compose fails after installation, check
your path. You can also create a symbolic link to /usr/bin or any
other directory in your path.

Answer 21

If you want to auto install docker-compose latest version, just run:
export docker_compose_latest=$(curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest | grep -o '[^/]*$')
curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/${docker_compose_latest}/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
It will install latest version of docker-compose. Official installing way need version obtained by your hands. But I wrote a script which obtain the latest version for you automatically.

Answer 22

In Amazon Linux, if you will do which docker-compose
you will get the below error
[root#ip bin]# which docker-compose
/usr/bin/which: no docker-compose in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin)
just mv the docker-compose from /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin
[root#ip bin]# mv docker-compose /usr/bin
[root#ip bin]# which docker-compose
/bin/docker-compose
[root#ip-172-31-36-121 bin]# docker-compose --version
docker-compose version 1.29.2, build unknown

Answer 23

Here is a brief guide that installs both Docker and Docker compose, hope you find it useful.

Answer 24

If docker-compose is already persists in /usr/local/bin:
ls -alt /usr/local/bin/ | grep docker-compose
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 77 Mar 11 10:39 docker-compose -> /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/Resources/bin/docker-compose/docker-compose
Then update your .bash_profile Path with this /usr/local/bin in the end:
export PATH="$HOME/.yarn/bin:$HOME/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/.bin:$PATH:/usr/local/bin"
Run:
source ~/.bash_profile
And check:
echo $PATH
> ...
which docker-compose
> /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
docker-compose