# macOS

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Docker Desktop for macOS comes with pre-installed docker-compose. If docker-compose --version gives version 1.2X and above, you may skip this setup.
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### Installation Guide

1. Open Terminal.
2. Download a stable release of Docker Compose

```
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.27.4/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
```

    3\.  Create a symbolic link to /usr/bin

```
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/docker-compose /usr/bin/docker-compose
```

    4\. Apply executable permissions to the binary

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

    5\. To confirm that Docker Compose has been installed, check the docker compose version using

```
docker-compose --version
```

Reference: <https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/>