Docker compose uses/shows an old version

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Hi, I’ve upgraded docker-compose-plugin but somehow docker compose version shows me an older version

>sudo apt-get install docker-compose-plugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
docker-compose-plugin is already the newest version (2.28.1-1~ubuntu.22.04~jammy).

docker compose version
Docker Compose version v2.13.0

Restart service / reboot either doesn’t help.
Am I missing something?

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Did you update the daemon and cli as well? Could you share their versions as well

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Plugins can be in multiple directories.

  • Docker Compose for all users on your system, replace ~/.docker/cli-plugins with /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins.

Docker Desktop comes with Docker Compose so it will probably be in .~/.docker/cli-plugins.
APT will not instal files in your home. docker info can show where the plugins are. If you have multiple compose plugins in different folders one can override the other.

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Tiny addition: the command docker info | grep docker-compose should show the path of the docker compose cli plugin that is used.

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It was a global installation at /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins. For some reason it was not updated by apt.

Downloading to the local folder fixed the problem.

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Was this ever fixed, I’m having the same problem but a year later
The problem I have is that docker compose version says there is no such command
When I try to find it with docker info | grep docker-compose it comes up empty as well
I had already removed it from /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins but also from the libexec path as well
Any assistance would be appreciated

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This topic is in the “Docker Desktop” category. Are you also using Docker dEsktop on Linux? I have no Desktop linux to test currently, but on other platforms the default compose is still in the fodler I mentioned here:

So that is where you should look for the compose plugin. Is there anything?