When I am trying to self-update my composer, I get "Permission Denied" error.
Even when I use sudo /usr/bin/composer.phar self-update, it shows me command not found.
Please help me I have no idea about composer
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try su instead of sudo – Niels Mar 31 '16 at 21:41
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2Try to call it with PHP directly. ```php composer.phar selfupdate``` – paskl Mar 31 '16 at 21:44
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it show an error message `su: Sorry` – Jackaroo Ng Mar 31 '16 at 21:44
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@paskl It show me` Could not open input file: composer.phar` when trying `Could not open input file: composer.pharv` – Jackaroo Ng Mar 31 '16 at 21:45
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Well, you have to give its full path if the .phar file is not in your current directory. – paskl Mar 31 '16 at 21:48
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`pharv` you have an extra v.. from pasting? – Farkie Mar 31 '16 at 21:53
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currently i face `sudo: /usr/local/bin/composer.phar: command not found` problem sry typing error just now – Jackaroo Ng Mar 31 '16 at 22:03
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Add `-vvv` to the command to get full verbose debugging output. Without that it's just a guessing game. – Niels Keurentjes Mar 31 '16 at 22:28
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`sudo -H composer self-update` fix my bug – Jackaroo Ng Mar 31 '16 at 23:26
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1This worked for me check if composer is in dir and check complete file name in this case I don't have .phar extension: `sudo /usr/local/bin/composer self-update` – Leo Fisher Feb 28 '18 at 18:28
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Try following command:
sudo php /usr/bin/composer.phar self-update
Make sure composer.phar file exist in "/usr/bin"
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i'm having same error as above. and the composer.phar file does not exist in the usr/bin. – TopTomato Feb 25 '17 at 00:45
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You can try this command even when composer self-update is giving error of Permission Denied. – Rashmi Jain Jul 05 '17 at 08:24
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1Please note that (currently) running the selfupdate command with sudo, changes the owner of the cache directories inside your current users homedir. In order to avoid derived permission problems, change back ownership of the cache directories: sudo chown -R
: – andkrup Feb 05 '20 at 11:24/home/ /.composer
