sudo: docker-compose: command not found

Solution 1:

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

Solution 2:

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.