Uninstall Docker Compose
Uninstalling Docker Compose depends on the method you have used to install Docker Compose. On this page you can find specific instructions to uninstall Docker Compose.
Uninstalling Docker Desktop
If you want to uninstall Docker Compose and you have installed Docker Desktop, see Uninstall Docker Desktop.
Note
Unless you have other Docker instances installed on that specific environment, you would be removing Docker altogether by uninstalling Docker Desktop.
Uninstalling the Docker Compose CLI plugin
To remove the Docker Compose CLI plugin, run:
Ubuntu, Debian:
$ sudo apt-get remove docker-compose-plugin
RPM-based distributions:
$ sudo yum remove docker-compose-plugin
Manually installed
If you used curl
to install Docker Compose CLI plugin, to uninstall it, run:
$ rm $DOCKER_CONFIG/cli-plugins/docker-compose
Remove for all users
Or, if you have installed Docker Compose for all users, run:
$ rm /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
Note
If you get a Permission denied error using either of the previous methods, you do not have the permissions needed to remove Docker Compose. To force the removal, prepend
sudo
to either of the previous instructions and run it again.
Inspect the location of the Compose CLI plugin
To check where Compose is installed, use:
$ docker info --format '{{range .ClientInfo.Plugins}}{{if eq .Name "compose"}}{{.Path}}{{end}}{{end}}'