Today, We will discuss about how to install composer on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04. Ubuntu is a free and open-source operating system and it is a popular operating system for cloud computing.
Introduction Composer
The composer is a package manager libraries. it is managing the PHP application and it is used for specially laravel framework. let’s see the below example.
Install Dependencies for Composer
The PHP version must be installed to 5.3.2 or higher version for the installation composer. PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and it’s a run based on server-side. so we need to install apache server MySQL and PHP. if you didn’t install PHP in your system then you can install through the below article URL.
Install Composer on Ubuntu
We will download the composer using the below command.
1 2 3 | sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install curl sudo curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php |
Now we move the composer.phar file into the bin folder and set the permission for all users.
1 2 | sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer |
check composer installed or not ubuntu
After the installation composer, we will check the composer is installed or not using the below command.
1 | composer |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | / ____/___ ____ ___ ____ ____ ________ _____ / / / __ \/ __ `__ \/ __ \/ __ \/ ___/ _ \/ ___/ / /___/ /_/ / / / / / / /_/ / /_/ (__ ) __/ / \____/\____/_/ /_/ /_/ .___/\____/____/\___/_/ /_/ Composer version 1.8.6 2019-09-03 23:17:20 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 --no-ansi Disable ANSI output -n, --no-interaction Do not ask any interactive question --profile Display timing and memory usage information --no-plugins Whether to disable plugins. |
Update Composer on Ubuntu
If you have already downloaded or installed the composer and you want to update the composer on ubuntu then you can below command.
1 | sudo composer self-update |
