At present, the latest docker-compose version, which could be installed under Ubuntu 18, 20, and 21 is the 1.25 and 1.27 versions. There may be significant changes included in the latest versions and if one wants to install it there are two options:
- Manual installation from docker from the github – https://github.com/docker/compose/releases
- Install it from pip3.
For example, depends_on.service.condition: service_healthy is added with version 1.28. Using this new feature it is fairly easy to implement waiting for a docker container (service) before starting another docker.
Here is how easy it is to install and to have the latest stable docker-compose version, which is 1.29.2 at the writing of this article:
STEP 1) Update and upgrade.
Do this step always before installing new software.
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade -y
STEP 2) Install pip3 and docker.
pip 3 is the package installer for Python 3. When using docker-compose it is supposed to have the very Docker software, too.
apt install python3-pip docker systemctl start docker
STEP 3) Install docker-compose using pip3.
pip3 install docker-compose
And here is what a version command prints:
root@srv:~# docker-compose version docker-compose version 1.29.2, build unknown docker-py version: 5.0.2 CPython version: 3.8.10 OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020
Just to note, installing packages using other programs other than apt may lead to future conflicts!
The whole console output of the pip3 installing docker-compose
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Reading package lists... Done
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root@srv:~# apt upgrade -y
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root@srv:~# apt install -y python3-pip docker
Reading package lists... Done
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The following additional packages will be installed:
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libbinutils libbsd0 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libcc1-0 libcrypt-dev libctf-nobfd0 libctf0 libdpkg-perl libexpat1 libexpat1-dev libfakeroot libfile-fcntllock-perl libgcc-9-dev
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libsqlite3-0 libssl1.1 libstdc++-9-dev libtsan0 libubsan1 libwind0-heimdal libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxml2 linux-libc-dev make manpages manpages-dev mime-support
netbase openssl patch perl perl-modules-5.30 pinentry-curses python-pip-whl python3 python3-dev python3-distutils python3-lib2to3 python3-minimal python3-pkg-resources
python3-setuptools python3-wheel python3.8 python3.8-dev python3.8-minimal readline-common shared-mime-info tzdata wmdocker xdg-user-dirs xz-utils zlib1g-dev
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liblocale-codes-perl pinentry-doc python3-doc python3-tk python3-venv python-setuptools-doc python3.8-venv python3.8-doc binfmt-support readline-doc
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gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libasan5 libasn1-8-heimdal libassuan0
libatomic1 libbinutils libbsd0 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libcc1-0 libcrypt-dev libctf-nobfd0 libctf0 libdpkg-perl libexpat1 libexpat1-dev libfakeroot libfile-fcntllock-perl libgcc-9-dev
libgdbm-compat4 libgdbm6 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libgomp1 libgssapi3-heimdal libhcrypto4-heimdal libheimbase1-heimdal libheimntlm0-heimdal libhx509-5-heimdal libicu66 libisl22
libitm1 libkrb5-26-heimdal libksba8 libldap-2.4-2 libldap-common liblocale-gettext-perl liblsan0 libmagic-mgc libmagic1 libmpc3 libmpdec2 libmpfr6 libnpth0 libperl5.30 libpython3-dev
libpython3-stdlib libpython3.8 libpython3.8-dev libpython3.8-minimal libpython3.8-stdlib libquadmath0 libreadline8 libroken18-heimdal libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules libsasl2-modules-db
libsqlite3-0 libssl1.1 libstdc++-9-dev libtsan0 libubsan1 libwind0-heimdal libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxml2 linux-libc-dev make manpages manpages-dev mime-support
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