compose: Encountered Syntax Error while installing Docker-Compose through pip in Ubuntu 14.04 server

@ripcurl00d suggested me to post this here.

Environment Details:

VirtualBox Networking through NAT (adapter 1) and intnet (adapter 2)

Docker Version:

Client:
version: 1.10.2

Server:
version: 1.10.2

I followed the below installation procedure of docker-compose

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install python-pip

pip install docker-compose

docker-compose version

I am facing the below mentioned error while trying to check the installation docker-compose.

/usr/local/bin/docker-compose: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'

/usr/local/bin/docker-compose: line: '<!DOCTYPE html>'

Has anyone encountered this error? How to resolve this?

_ PS: I also tried to install docker-composethrough curl . Still faced the same error

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State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Comments: 15 (1 by maintainers)

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Fix docker-compose installation in travis CI I'm getting a weird error related to docker-compose on Travis: "syntax error near unexpected token `newline' `<html>'" A GitHub issue suggests using a dif... — committed to tipresias/tipresias by cfranklin11 4 years ago

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I think I have discovered what causes this, in case anyone else runs into it like myself and those listed here. dnephin might be right as well. However, If you copy and post the command for curl from the site and run it you will download the html page not the executable you need.

Don’t run this: curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.11.2/docker-compose-`uname -s-uname -m` -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

You need to replace ‘uname -s’ and ‘uname -m’. Those are supposed to pull info about your kernel. That didn’t work for me. So instead just put the file you need this:

curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.11.2/docker-compose-Linux-x86_64 -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Then you will be good to go.

+47

agoldenlife on Mar 24, 2017

I think your downloads are going through a proxy that sent you html instead of the binary you wanted. Use a text editor to look at what’s in the file /usr/local/bin/docker-compose, and you’ll see that it’s not a binary.

+15

dnephin on Mar 17, 2016

Try sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.19.0-rc2/docker-compose-Linux-x86_64 -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

+11

nachoperassi on Jan 30, 2018

sudo apt install docker-compose

sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.11.2/docker-compose-Linux-x86_64 -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

worked for me

NatLee on Feb 12, 2020

https://dl.bintray.com/docker-compose/master/ I solved it by downloading the file manually and pasting it in folder /usr/local/bin Note rename the file to docker-compose

Abhi4caparian on Feb 4, 2019

install on ubuntu 14.04 and meet this problem, and i decide to download docker-compose file manually and move to /usr/local/bin/. and it’s work.

ekanur on Jun 28, 2016