Following the last post on how to install the latest stable binary for Docker Machine, If you want to install the Docker Machine client on your 64 bits Linux machine you only have to follow the official instructions and download it from GitHub.
However, if you want to download the file tagged as the latest stable release right away without checking on GitHub what is the new release, this is the one line command I’m using thanks to the tag added by the Docker team:
curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/`curl -s -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest| grep Linux-x86_64 | grep href | cut -f 6 -d '/'`/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
Then you can check that docker-machine is ready if you have /usr/local/bin in your PATH, e.g I’m running the 1.7.1 version:
docker-compose version
docker-compose version 1.7.1, build 0a9ab35
Cheers!
n40lab 