sudo docker-compose command not found

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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 compose using curl  I ended up installing it using pip   Docker version 1 12 0  build 8eab29e docker-compose version 1 8 0  build 94f7016  Yet  when I try to run docker-compose with sudo I get the following  using sudo with docker is fine   sudo  docker-compose  command not found   I suppose there are differing definitions of what  installed  means  I have been using docker-compose on the same computer that claims it is not installed     dpkg -s docker-compose dpkg-query  package  docker-compose  is not installed and no information is available Use dpkg --info    dpkg-deb --info  to examine archive files  and dpkg --contents    dpkg-deb --contents  to list their contents      whereis docker-compose docker-compose   home user  local bin docker-compose    pip show --files docker-compose --- Metadata-Version  2 0 Name  docker-compose Version  1 8 0 Summary  Multi-container orchestration for Docker Home-page  https   www docker com  Author  Docker  Inc  Author-email  UNKNOWN Installer  pip License  Apache License 2 0 Location   home anton  local lib python2 7 site-packages Requires  six  jsonschema  enum34  cached-property  websocket-client  docker-py  requests  docopt  dockerpty  PyYAML  texttable Classifiers    Development Status    5 - Production Stable   Environment    Console   Intended Audience    Developers   License    OSI Approved    Apache Software License   Programming Language    Python    2   Programming Language    Python    2 7   Programming Language    Python    3   Programming Language    Python    3 4 Files             bin docker-compose   compose GITSHA   compose   init   py   compose   init   pyc   compose   main   py   compose   main   pyc   compose bundle py   compose bundle pyc   compose cli   init   py   compose cli   init   pyc   compose cli colors py   compose cli colors pyc   compose cli command py   compose cli command pyc   compose cli docker client py   compose cli docker client pyc   compose cli docopt command py   compose cli docopt command pyc   compose cli errors py   compose cli errors pyc   compose cli formatter py   compose cli formatter pyc   compose cli log printer py   compose cli log printer pyc   compose cli main py   compose cli main pyc   compose cli signals py   compose cli signals pyc   compose cli utils py   compose cli utils pyc   compose cli verbose proxy py   compose cli verbose proxy pyc   compose config   init   py   compose config   init   pyc   compose config config py   compose config config pyc   compose config config schema v1 json   compose config config schema v2 0 json   compose config environment py   compose config environment pyc   compose config errors py   compose config errors pyc   compose config interpolation py   compose config interpolation pyc   compose config serialize py   compose config serialize pyc   compose config sort services py   compose config sort services pyc   compose config types py   compose config types pyc   compose config validation py   compose config validation pyc   compose const py   compose const pyc   compose container py   compose container pyc   compose errors py   compose errors pyc   compose network py   compose network pyc   compose parallel py   compose parallel pyc   compose progress stream py   compose progress stream pyc   compose project py   compose project pyc   compose service py   compose service pyc   compose state py   compose state pyc   compose utils py   compose utils pyc   compose volume py   compose volume pyc   docker compose-1 8 0 dist-info DESCRIPTION rst   docker compose-1 8 0 dist-info INSTALLER   docker compose-1 8 0 dist-info METADATA   docker compose-1 8 0 dist-info RECORD   docker compose-1 8 0 dist-info WHEEL   docker compose-1 8 0 dist-info entry points txt   docker compose-1 8 0 dist-info metadata json   docker compose-1 8 0 dist-info pbr json   docker compose-1 8 0 dist-info top level txt Entry-points     console scripts    docker-compose compose cli main main   I have tried the following - but still get the same error     chmod  x  home username  local bin docker-compose   chmod  x  home username  local lib python2 7 site-packages

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

I will leave this here as a possible fix  worked for me at least and might help others  Pretty sure this would be a linux only fix   I decided to not go with the pip install and go with the github version  option one on the installation guide    Instead of placing the copied docker-compose directory into  usr local bin docker-compose from the curl github command  I went with  usr bin docker-compose which is the location of Docker itself and will force the program to run in root  So it works in root and sudo but now won t work without sudo so the opposite effect which is what you want to run it as a user anyways

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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    docker-compose simply isn t installed at all  and you need to install it   The solution here is simple  install docker-compose  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

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On Ubuntu 16 04  Here s how I fixed this issue  Refer Docker Compose documentation    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 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    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

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