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

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.