Install Composer on Linux ( Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Elementary OS)
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Install Composer on Linux ( Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Elementary OS).
Composer is necessary thing for several operations. With help of Composer you can install many php packages and classes easily.Several frameworks are available to install through the composer only. Say for example Laravel you need Composer to install it. Let’s see how to install Composer on Linux.
1. Pre-Requirement
We Need cURL in order to download Composer and php-cli to install the Composer. Just type the following command on your Terminal.
sudo apt-get install curl php5-cli git
2. Download and Install
Now, you can type the following thing to download and install Composer.
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
That’s it. After installing it, we need to test whether its working or not.
3. Test
Type composer on your terminal, it will show like below.
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Composer version 1.0-dev (9859859f1082d94e546aa75746867df127aa0d9e) 2015-08-17 14:57:00
Usage:
command [options] [arguments]
Options:
--help (-h) Display this help message
