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permission denied in docker-compose on linux

(base) a@a-ThinkPad-T440:~$ docker-compose version
bash: /usr/local/bin/docker-compose: Permission denied

I have big problem with docker-compose, I tried to upgrade docker-compose to 1.25 with curl but now I have no permission for docker-compose (I have linux ubuntu)

Solution

  • As far as I can understand you are using docker's source to install docker-compose and you forgot the second step. Source for complete installation.

    As second step states. Apply executable permissions to the binary:

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

    In addition to the comments provided in the question

    sudo usermod -aG docker $USER                   # to add myself to docker group
sudo chgrp docker /usr/local/bin/docker-compose # to give docker-compose to docker group,
sudo chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/docker-compose    # to allow docker group users to execute it

    You might want to try running newgrp docker