Composer: Command Not Found

Question

From within the directory holding my composer.phar file, I can't execute any composer commands.

I can see Composer is running when I execute

php composer.phar

But any direct composer statements fail.

Not sure if it matters but Composer was included within a cloned repository.

I just want to install a single Oauth library, then likely not touch Composer again for several months, so I don't need to run it globally. I'm just confused why I can't run Composer from within this directory.

We need more information to be any help here. Do you have an error message? What command are you trying to run that's failing? — HPierce, Dec 01 '15 at 19:31
an example statement would be "composer -v". I get a Command Not Found error. I'm on a Mac — Brandon Buster, Dec 01 '15 at 21:35
What's the exact problem? `composer -v` is not the same as `php composer.phar -v` — Nico Haase, Apr 24 '20 at 21:32

score 211 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 14 '22 at 16:52

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This problem arises when you have composer installed locally. To make it globally executable,run the below command in terminal

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

edited Jun 14 '22 at 16:52

miken32

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answered Dec 05 '16 at 08:49

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This worked perfectly for composer 1.3.1 on OSX 10.10, thankyou – Davey Jan 21 '17 at 18:13
"-- sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer" or "sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer" it helps if you actually use a code block – JGallardo Feb 14 '17 at 19:38
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For me, the command has worked after opening a new console (to take effect) – khaled_webdev Jan 26 '18 at 10:42
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Thanks, worked. Do you know, that in 12 years since I am doing stuff on unix/debian it NEVER happened that one of the commands I found worked in the first place? there is ALWAYS an error, and I always have to GOOGLE and fix it..bla.bla.. – bodomalo May 26 '20 at 15:11
i am getting the error mv: rename composer.phar to /usr/local/bin/composer: No such file or directory – user9437856 Nov 27 '22 at 15:39
Note that when moved, the ".phar" extension is removed from the file name. – Troy Niemeier Jul 27 '23 at 15:32

score 86 · Answer 2 · answered May 16 '17 at 13:19

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I am using CentOS and had same problem.

I changed /usr/local/bin/composer to /usr/bin/composer and it worked.

Run below command :

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php sudo mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer

Verify Composer is installed or not

composer --version

answered May 16 '17 at 13:19

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This was what fixed my issue on Amazon AWS CentOS – mathius1 Dec 22 '19 at 23:36
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This fixed my problem sudo mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer – Ahmed C Sep 15 '20 at 10:36
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This worked for me, thanks @bsb – Kashyap Sharma Oct 19 '21 at 16:51
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Your system path is set up incorrectly if it doesn't include `/usr/local/bin/` – miken32 Jun 14 '22 at 16:53

score 59 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '15 at 23:41

Your composer.phar command lacks the flag for executable, or it is not inside the path.

The first problem can be fixed with chmod +x composer.phar, the second by calling it as ./composer.phar -v.

You have to prefix executables that are not in the path with an explicit reference to the current path in Unix, in order to avoid going into a directory that has an executable file with an innocent name that looks like a regular command, but is not. Just think of a cat in the current directory that does not list files, but deletes them.

The alternative, and better, fix for the second problem would be to put the composer.phar file into a location that is mentioned in the path

Prefixing a reference to the current directory worked, ./composer.phar -v. Thanks for the answer, thank you also for the explaination! — Brandon Buster, Dec 02 '15 at 02:02

Nishant Shah · Answer 4 · 2021-07-20T06:23:10.457

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This is for mac or ubuntu user, try this on terminal

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

or mac brew can try

brew install composer

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answered Jun 29 '18 at 14:36

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Nitin Nain · Answer 5 · 2020-04-25T02:16:38.193

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MacOS: composer is available on brew now (Tested on Php7+):

brew install composer

Install instructions on the Composer Docs page are quite to the point otherwise.

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answered Jan 17 '19 at 10:05

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Nanhe Kumar · Answer 6 · 2020-02-21T15:20:37.277

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Step 1 : Open Your terminal

Step 2 : Run bellow command

          curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Step 3 : After installation run bellow command

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

Step 4 : Open bash_profile file create alias follow bellow steps

           vim ~/.bash_profile

Step 5 : Add bellow line in bash_profile file

          alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer.phar"

Step 6 : Close your terminal and reopen your terminal and run bellow command composer

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answered Aug 16 '19 at 17:20

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on run this command sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/ get bolow issue sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is world writable sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set – yagnik devani Jun 03 '20 at 11:54
yes its work for me alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer" – matinict Nov 22 '22 at 20:36

score 12 · Answer 7 · answered May 27 '20 at 11:19

First I did alias setup on bash / zsh profile.

alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer.phar"

Then I moved composer.phar to /usr/local/bin/

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

Then made composer executable by running

sudo chmod +x composer

score -1 · Answer 8 · answered Nov 08 '21 at 02:16

https://getcomposer.org/download/ it might help

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '906a84df04cea2aa72f40b5f787e49f22d4c2f19492ac310e8cba5b96ac8b64115ac402c8cd292b8a03482574915d1a8') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php

this code for ubuntu and wsl2.

score -1 · Answer 9 · answered Dec 05 '21 at 08:10

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Open terminal and run the following command,

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/php71 /usr/bin/php

answered Dec 05 '21 at 08:10

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score -1 · Answer 10 · answered May 04 '22 at 17:32

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Works in RHEL 8, php 7.4

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer

answered May 04 '22 at 17:32

Rajath Kamal

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