How to remove globally a package from Composer?

Question

I ran this command to install globally PHPUnit:

composer global require 'phpunit/phpunit=3.7.*'

Now I want to uninstall globally PHPUnit.

Any ideas?

Jakub Zalas · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-04T21:37:17.687

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To remove a globally installed package run:

composer global remove phpunit/phpunit

global command lets you to run many commands like install, require or update as if you were running them from the COMPOSER_HOME directory.

COMPOSER_HOME depends on your system (on Linux it's ~/.composer), see http://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#composer-home for more details.

edited Oct 04 '16 at 21:37

answered Oct 07 '13 at 11:07

Jakub Zalas

Are there any reasons composer global update would not work? I removed a package from my composer.json in .composer and ran the global update but I can still execute the program. – Elijah Lynn Aug 05 '14 at 21:37
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A `remove` command has been added to composer. See [this PR](https://github.com/composer/composer/pull/2479) and [this commit](https://github.com/composer/composer/commit/e3f32a79f30e55737c6c75bcf3e688c7c5e1bd9f). – iisisrael Apr 08 '15 at 18:01
@iisisrael it doesn't work for packages installed globally and this is what this question is about. Thanks for reference though! – Jakub Zalas Apr 08 '15 at 20:34
Composer supports global remove now. Updated the answer. – Jakub Zalas Jul 07 '15 at 13:58

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 27 '18 at 09:32

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Also you can use another way

cd $HOME/.config/composer

And in composer.json file remove some require positions

After all execute composer update This is a long way, but more clear

answered Dec 27 '18 at 09:32

WiRight

I used `composer global update` – subdesign Nov 02 '21 at 09:35
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I found this config file at `~/.composer/composer.json` in brew installed composer – Ninja Nov 17 '21 at 09:33

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