Monday, August 21, 2017

Installing Composer globally in Ubuntu 16.04

Run this in your terminal to get the latest Composer version:


$ php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"

$ php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '669656bab3166a7aff8a7506b8cb2d1c292f042046c5a994c43155c0be6190fa0355160742ab2e1c88d40d5be660b410') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"

$ php composer-setup.php

$ php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

After running the installer run this:


$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Note: If the above fails due to permissions, you may need to run it again with sudo.

To verify installation type:


$ composer

You will get a similar output shown below:
______
/ ____/___ ____ ___ ____ ____ ________ _____
/ / / __ \/ __ `__ \/ __ \/ __ \/ ___/ _ \/ ___/
/ /___/ /_/ / / / / / / /_/ / /_/ (__ ) __/ /
\____/\____/_/ /_/ /_/ .___/\____/____/\___/_/
/_/
Composer version 1.5.1 2017-08-09 16:07:22

Usage:
command [options] [arguments]

Options:
-h, --help Display this help message
-q, --quiet Do not output any message
-V, --version Display this application version
--ansi Force ANSI output