Where to find composer's global packages?

Question

For a plugin for Sublime Text I was required to install a composer package globally.

In order to do this I had to run the following command:

composer global require "asm89/twig-lint" "@stable"

The installation started running and a few seconds later the package was installed. Voila! Well, not really.

Step two was to add some lines to my Sublime Text configuration file:

{
    "user": {
        "paths": {
            "windows": ["C:\\Users\\yourname\\.composer\\vendor\\bin"]
        },
    }
}

However, the plugin is not working. So I decided to check the path. And it appears there is no .composer directory in my profile directory. It isn't in my php directory either. And I can't find it anywhere.

I would like to know if there's a way to locate this directory and would appreciate any suggestions that can help me get this plugin to work.

score 194 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 21 '22 at 01:56

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You can query Composer to find where it has set the user $COMPOSER_HOME directory.

composer config --list --global

The [home] ... line refers to the default value of $COMPOSER_HOME.

The word home can be used as a single parameter as well to show the configuration value.

Example (Windows):

> composer -n config --global home                
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Composer

Example (Linux):

$ composer -n config --global home                
/home/<user>/.composer

Just as a final confirmation - the 'yourname' part in the configuration, would very likely need to be updated with your own Windows username - composer config will say where it puts the files.

edited Jun 21 '22 at 01:56

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answered Jun 05 '15 at 10:42

Alister Bulman

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About the `yourname` part. I figured :) – Peter Jun 05 '15 at 10:48
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You can just run `composer config home`. – glen-84 May 20 '16 at 09:47
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I believe in this instance it would actually be `composer global config home` – ed' Jul 26 '17 at 16:23
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@EdwardSammutAlessi The global command allows you to run other commands like install, remove, require or update as if you were running them from the COMPOSER_HOME directory. Documentation: [Composer. global command](https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#global) – Maxim Mandrik Sep 28 '18 at 14:16
I get `/data/.composer` but there is no `/data/` folder in my Ubuntu install... – AndrewRMillar Jul 15 '21 at 14:52
This worked for Windows 11 – Tami Dec 25 '21 at 12:49

score 31 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '20 at 21:18

You can use

composer global config bin-dir --absolute

Example

PATH=$(composer global config bin-dir --absolute --quiet):$PATH

You need --absolute to get value expanded, and --quiet to discard diagnostics of composer global changing working directory. This was tested with composer 1.10.16 and 2.0.1.

See https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/9354#issuecomment-716827067

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 08 '18 at 10:46

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You may find in ~/.config/composer/vendor/bin

answered Dec 08 '18 at 10:46

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This is the case with my settings in Ubuntu 18 – Billal Begueradj Nov 03 '19 at 11:03

Ostap Brehin · Answer 4 · 2021-07-30T06:33:12.207

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Ubuntu 20.04:

~/.config/composer/vendor

edited Jul 30 '21 at 06:33

answered Sep 15 '20 at 17:33

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This depends on composer version and environment configuration. You can also have it on Ubuntu 18.04 as you show it on Ubuntu 16.04 and vice-versa, even with the latest composer version IIRC. – hakre Jul 12 '21 at 11:01

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 07 '21 at 23:21

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For composer v2:

composer global config --list

Check the output and find [vendor-dir] parameter. Or use grep:

composer global config --list | grep "vendor-dir"

answered Jan 07 '21 at 23:21

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 28 '20 at 09:06

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Run the command

composer config --list --global | grep -w home

You can find the find the [home] with composer path, similar to this one.

[home] /home/example_username/.config/composer

answered Jan 28 '20 at 09:06

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Better even not filter with grep but just return from the command directly. I edited the [accepted answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/30664521/367456) to show it, it was also in the comments there. – hakre Jul 12 '21 at 11:00

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 12 '19 at 16:42

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On Windows, mine was /Users/taylor/AppData/Roaming/Composer/bin

answered Aug 12 '19 at 16:42

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jan 01 '21 at 22:53

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~/.config/composer/vendor/bin/laravel adding this to my bashrc file as a alias works on ubuntu 20.04

answered Jan 01 '21 at 22:53

Eren Sertkaya

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