How to upgrade docker-compose to latest version

Question

I have installed docker-compose using the command

sudo apt install docker-compose

It installed docker-compose version 1.8.0 and build unknown

Answer 1

If you installed with pip, to upgrade you can just use:

 pip install --upgrade docker-compose

or as Mariyo states with pip3 explicitly:

 pip3 install --upgrade docker-compose

Answer 2

If you have homebrew you can also install via brew

$ brew install docker-compose

This is a good way to install on a Mac OS system

Answer 3

use this from command line: sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.22.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Write down the latest release version

Apply executable permissions to the binary:

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

Then test version:

$ docker-compose --version

Answer 4

If you tried sudo apt-get remove docker-compose and get E: Unable to locate package docker-compose, try this method :

This command must return a result, in order to check it is installed here :

ls -l /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Remove the old version :

sudo rm -rf docker-compose

Download the last version (check official repo : docker/compose/releases) :

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.24.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

(replace 1.24.0 if needed)

Finally, apply executable permissions to the binary:

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

Check version :

docker-compose -v

Answer 5

First, remove the old version:

If installed via apt-get

sudo apt-get remove docker-compose

If installed via curl

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

If installed via pip

pip uninstall docker-compose

Then find the newest version on the release page at GitHub or by curling the API if you have jq installed (thanks to dragon788 and frbl for this improvement):

VERSION=$(curl --silent https://api.github.com/repos/docker/compose/releases/latest | jq .name -r)

Finally, download to your favorite $PATH-accessible location and set permissions:

DESTINATION=/usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/${VERSION}/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o $DESTINATION
sudo chmod 755 $DESTINATION

Answer 6

I was trying to install docker-compose on "Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS" but after installing it like this:

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.26.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

I was getting:

-bash: /usr/local/bin/docker-compose: Permission denied

and while I was using it with sudo I was getting:

sudo: docker-compose: command not found

So here's the steps that I took and solved my problem:

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.26.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo ln -sf /usr/local/bin/docker-compose /usr/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/docker-compose