My Ubuntu 20.04 installs version 1.25.0 of docker-compose while the most recent version is 2.0.1 (why is that?).
Is there any method to force Ubuntu to install the latest version?
If not, so I have to follow the official instructions, but the curl command is pointing to /usr/local/bin directory while on my machine it is installed on /usr/bin.
So what is the safe method to upgrade my package?
2 Answers
Docker-compose takes place only in a binary file, so it is easy to put the last version !
First, if you have a previous installed version, remove it, in my case, I had version from main repository, so I ran :
sudo apt remove docker-compose
then go to and download, for example, for 2.2.3 :
or other one
then move this file to :
sudo mv docker-compose-linux-x86_64 /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
and
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
check d-c runs correctly :
docker-compose --version
that returns in my case :
Docker Compose version v2.2.3
Under ubuntu 18.04, official docker are today at v19.03.13 and it is ok to work with compose v2
See also :
You are using an older release of Ubuntu, which generally runs older software. To run newer software, use a newer release of Ubuntu.
See Why don't the Ubuntu repositories have the latest versions of software?.
Note that the newest deb package for docker-compose is 1.27.
nobody has packaged 2.0.1 yet.
The BEST way to get newer deb packages is to help the Debian volunteers package it.
