I have been trying to install composer on my Mac (running macOS Sierra). The composer.phar file is now located in /usr/local/bin/composer/ and it works properly when I'm not running composer as a root.
$ composer -V
Composer version 1.2.4 2016-12-06 22:00:51
However, when I try to run composer as a root (which of course is required to install dependencies), I get this:
$ sudo composer
sudo: composer: command not found
I have no single clue how to fix it, has anyone else had this?
it must be a composer.phar renamed to composer into /usr/local/bin/ , not a directory composer/
From : https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
Globally#
You can place the Composer PHAR anywhere you wish. If you put it in a directory that is part of your PATH, you can access it globally. On unixy systems you can even make it executable and invoke it without directly using the php interpreter.
After running the installer following the Download page instructions you can run this to move composer.phar to a directory that is in your path:
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Note: If the above fails due to permissions, you may need to run it again with sudo.
Note: On some versions of OSX the /usr directory does not exist by default. If you receive the error "/usr/local/bin/composer: No such file or directory" then you must create the directory manually before proceeding:
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
Note: For information on changing your PATH, please read the Wikipedia article and/or use Google.
Now just run composer in order to run Composer instead of php composer.phar.
I'm trying to run composer global require "laravel/installer" on my Ubuntu machine (Trenta OS Distro) and for some reason I can't get it to install.
file_put_contents(./composer.json): failed to open stream: Permission denied
I get the error above on every attempt. I've been unable to find any help on google so I'm guessing this isn't a very common problem. I tried whereis command on that file and it gives me a location
/usr/local/bin/composer
I tried running chmod -R 777 on that file but it did nothing. I don't know what else to do.
Composer was installed on my machine with the following command
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
I thought composer.json only comes with projects, but I shouldn't need an existing project in order to simply set up the Laravel Installer right?
I had the same problem and after reading this answer I solved it updating the .composer folder permissions:
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /home/$USER/.composer
Where $USER is your machine's username.
Update: As #Lucas Bustamante pointed, you don't need to change $USER for your username, its an environment variable already.
As Ian Warner commented out, is not a good idea to run composer as sudo user, because it can lead to security issues.
usr/local/bin/composer composer global require "laravel/installer"
usr/local/bin/composer composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel myblog
I think this may solve your problem as it did for me.
I made a bash file for the whole process of global installation of Laravel.
download it from here, open a terminal in the bash file directory and run the command below:
bash Laravel_Global_Installer.sh
This bash file manages installations of:
Latest version of PHP and its extensions
Latest version of Composer (Global)
Latest version of Laravel (Global)
This will help you install Composer Globally and without sudo. Therefore you will be able to install Laravel Globally.
first run whereis composer then
navigate to the that directory and run
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER / composer
use sudo before the command,
for e.g.: sudo composer global require "laravel/installer"
This is going to be easy one I guess. On my OS X - Yosemite I have copied composer.phar to my /usr/bin directory. I have been using it for a while but today I needed to run "composer update". It didnt work of course so I ran "sudo composer update". Then I got the message "command composer not found". Chmm
I copied composer to /usr/local/bin according to the documentation and now "sudo composer" works like charm. BUT when I run "composer" without sudo, it still uses the old one in "/usr/bin" directory. So I deleted it.
Now composer works only with sudo command. I get "Could not open input file: /usr/bin/composer.phar" otherwise. What should I do to point command "composer" to the new location in /usr/local/bin?
Another alternative to get a nice composer command instead of composer.phar:
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin
$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Edit:
/etc/bashrc
Add this to that file:
alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer"
run:
source /etc/bashrc
Composer should now run without sudo.
Okay, I encountered issues of having to run composer commands with sudo as well, but in order to get it working without throwing this kind of error (in Ubuntu 15.10):
[ErrorException]
copy(/home/randomuser/.composer/cache/files/barryvdh/laravel-cors/056068736ff8f002514178e1416c7665732eaddc.zip): failed to open stream: Permission denied
What simply solved the issue for me is:
Navigating to my home directory $ cd
Changing the ownership of .composer with: sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .composer/
Then composer install works smoothly.
PS: this might be different for other situation.
Hope this helps :)
i will answer you how i solve it in my Ubuntu 16.10 and you can compare yours
my composer folder set in
/home/abdallah/.composer/
i only give this file the 777 permission so can be reached by any user group
sudo chmod -R 777 /home/abdallah/.composer/
and that is it
i hope this helpful for you
Judging from other answers it seems the solution can vary depending on your system. This is how I fixed the problem on Mac 10.12.
My composer executable in /usr/local/bin/composer had a different group than ~/.composer/ config and cache files.
/usr/local/bin/composer myusr admin
~/.composer/ myusr staff
The primary group for myusr is staff so I changed the group for /usr/local/bin/composer to staff.
/usr/local/bin myusr$ chgrp staff composer
Cache files that had been created when running composer as sudo in the past were still causing problems so I deleted those. Composer cache files are located here: ~/.composer/cache/
If updating hangs during composer update for a project check/empty cache files in the .composer directory for the project.
I am new to symfony2 and reading symblog. In third chapter while trying with data-fixtures I tried the command:
php composer.phar update
but I got the error:
Could not open input file: composer.phar
So I googled a little and tried
php composer.phar install
but still getting the same error. So please guide how to deal with this composer to install new extentions or bundles like data-fixtures in symfony2 using wamp.
If you followed instructions like these:
https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
Which tell you to do the following:
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Then it's likely that you, like me, ran those commands and didn't read the next part of the page telling you to stop referring to composer.phar by its full name and abbreviate it as an executable (that you just renamed with the mv command). So this:
$ php composer.phar update friendsofsymfony/elastica-bundle
Becomes this:
$ composer update friendsofsymfony/elastica-bundle
I had the same problem on Windows and used a different solution. I used the Composer_Setup.exe installation file supplied by the composer website and it does a global install.
After installing, make sure your PATH variable points to the directory where composer.phar is stored. This is usually C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin (ProgramData might be a hidden directory). It goes without saying, but also be sure that the PHP executable is also in your PATH variable.
You can then simply call
composer install
instead of
php composer.phar install
Background
It is helpful to know that there are two ways to install (and use) Composer: locally as a file in your project directory, or globally as a system-wide executable.
Installing Composer locally simply means that you are downloading a file (composer.phar - which is a PHP Archive) into your project directory. You will have to download it for every project that requires Composer.
Like a regular PHP file that you want to execute on the command line, you will have to run it with PHP:
php composer.phar update
Which basically tells the php executable to run the file composer.phar with update as argument.
However, if you install it globally, you can make composer itself executable, so you can call it without php (and don't have to download it for every project). In other words, you can use composer like this:
composer update
Since you are executing php composer.phar update, and you are getting the error Could not open input file: composer.phar, you probably don't have composer.phar in your current directory.
Solution
If you have Composer installed globally, simply run composer update instead of php composer.phar update.
If you don't have Composer installed yet, download the PHAR using the following command:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
This will download the installer and run it using php. The installer will download the actual Composer PHAR to your current working directory, and make it executable.
To install Composer globally (I recommend this), copy the file to a location in your PATH. The exact location differs per operating system and setup, see https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#globally for more information.
Personally, I prefer to install Composer in my home directory so I don't need sudo to install or update the composer executable (which can be a security risk). As I'm on Linux, I use the following command:
mv composer.phar ~/.local/bin/composer
If anyone else came this low on the page and still didn't find a working answer (like I did), use this:
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
$ alias composer='/usr/local/bin/composer.phar'
$ composer --version
et voila! A working composer :-)
To solve this issue the first thing you need to do is to get the last version of composer :
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
I recommend you to move the composer.phar file to a global “bin” directoy, in my case (OS X) the path is:
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
than you need to create an alias file for an easy access
alias composer='/usr/local/bin/composer.phar'
If everything is ok, now it is time to verify our Composer version:
composer --version
Let's make composer great again.
I found this worked as I did not have curl installed. On Windows 8 with XAMPP installed. It will add it to your local build I use .gitignore to avoid the repo
php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php
I got it from here: https://getcomposer.org/download/
This worked for me:
composer install
Without
php composer install
Run the following in command line:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Yesterday I was trying to install Yii2 framework on Windows 10 and I have same problem(Could not open input file: composer.phar) running this command:
php composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced advanced 2.0.9
Issue is composer.phr file is not in current directory,you need to give full path composer.phr like
php C:\ProgramData\Composer\bin\composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced advanced 2.0.9
Or you can create yii2 project using this command:
composer create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced advanced 2.0.9
Or
composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced advanced 2.0.9
I had the same issue. It is solved when I made composer globally available. Now I am able to tun the commands from any where in the folder.
composer update
composer require "samplelibraryyouwant"
Use this :
php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php
Hi friends, follow the steps to fix this issue in MAC OS
Step 1: first run the command in Terminal with your project directory
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Step 2: Move the composer.phar in your project directory
$ mv composer.phar /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/bashrushAPI/composer.phar
Step 3: Setup alias the composer
$ alias composer='/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/bashrushAPI/composer.phar'
Step 4: Check the composer version now
$ composer --version
Composer version 1.7.2 2018-08-16 16:57:12
Step 5: Confirm the project folders and file placed on bellow
$ ls
CONTRIBUTING.md docker-compose.yml templates
README.md logs tests
composer.json phpunit.xml vendor
composer.lock public
composer.phar src
Step 6: Now update composer
$ composer.phar update
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Nothing to install or update
Generating autoload files
Step 7: Run your sample project
$ php composer.phar start
php -S localhost:8080 -t public
[Thu Sep 27 03:16:11 2018] ::1:51177 [200]: /
[Thu Sep 27 03:16:11 2018] ::1:51178 [404]: /favicon.ico - No such file or directory
Easy answer, navigate to the directory where you already have the composer.json file that you want to run (ideally your project folder) then download composer into the same folder, then instantly run the install command like so:
php composer.phar install
This will automatically find the composer.json and run your required scripts. Good luck. This stuff is a breeze for terminal wizards and totally bizarre to the rest of us
I am using windows 8.0. In my case to install or update i just use composer install or something else instead of php composer.phar. This worked for me
like
composer require google/apiclient:1.*
To googlers who installed composer via HomeBrew:
make a symbolic link for /usr/local/bin/composer
ln -s /usr/local/bin/composer /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
I got this error "Could not open input file: composer.phar" while installing Yii2 using below mentioned command.
php composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic
Solutions which worked for me was, I changed the command to
composer create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic
I hope it help!
your composer.phar should be placed in above way.
For windows, I made composer.cmd and used the below text:
php c:\programs\php\composer.phar %*
where composer.phar is installed and c:\programs\php\ is added to my path.
Not sure why this isn't done automatically.
For Windows10 Pro, Following steps fix the issue. select properties check the Unblock program option. run the installer, run the command CMD with Admin rights. At command promp run composer --version to make sure it is globally installed. you should be able to now run composer require drush/drush This is for drush dependency using composer.
Command like this :
composer.phar require intervention/image
error: composer.phar: command not found
I solved the problem by following this process
i set the composer globally and renamed composer.phar to composer then run this command composer require intervention/image . and now it's working fine
Just open cmd as Administrator and go into your project folder and check it is working or not using composer command.
The above error is because of the composer is not accessible globally.
So you need to run "cmd" as Administrator.
This is working fine for me.
If you are using Ubuntu/Linux and you are trying to run
php composer.phar require intervention/image on your command line.
Use sudo composer require intervention/image instead. This will give you want you are looking for.
I had an issue getting a package.json's script to run composer dumpautoload.
I had the file /usr/local/bin/composer.phar, and also the file ~/.bash_profile (on OSX) contained:
alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer.phar"
This allowed composer to work from the command line, but it didn't allow scripts to execute composer.
The fix was this:
$ cd /usr/local/bin
$ mv composer.phar composer
$ sudo chmod +x composer // +x allows the file to be executable, such as by CLI scripts
But that yielded this error Could not open input file: /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
The fix was to update ~/.bash_profile (sudo nano ~/.bash_profile), and change the composer alias to:
alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer"
# ie: `.phar` extension removed
Now everything is behaving as expected.
Your composer.phar must be in Source files. I had same problem and I just cut my composer.phar into mine framework-standard-edition folder, where is my whole strong textproject.
if the composer is already install all you need is to know where the composer.phar file is (its directory) after that you move to your symfony project where you have the composer.json and from that directory you execute your composer.phar file. In windows here is what you have to do.
symfony project directory_where_composer.json_is>php the_directory_where_composer.phar_is/composer update
That's all
use two steps .
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo php composer.phar update
You can do
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
The -sS flag meaning don't show progress, do show errors
and then
php composer.phar install
from:
How do I get cURL to not show the progress bar?
https://packagist.org/
I've reach to this problem when trying to install composer on a Window 7 machine from http://getcomposer.org/download page. As there was an existing compose version (provided by acquia Dev Desktop tool) the installation fails and the only chance was to fix this issue manually. (or to remove Dev Desktop tool composer).
Anyway the error message is quite straightforward (Could not open input file: composer.phar), we should then tell the system where the file is located.
Edit composer.bat file and should look like:
#SET PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\DevDesktop\php5_4;%PATH%
php.exe composer.phar %*
See that composer.phar doesn´t have a file path. When standing in a different folder than the one where composer.phar is located the system won´t be able to find it. So, just complete the composer.phar file path:
#SET PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\DevDesktop\php5_4;;%PATH%
SET composerScript=composer.phar
php.exe "%~dp0%composerScript%" %*
Reopen your window console and that should do the trick.
EDIT: this has an issue because it always uses %~dp0%composerScript%
folder as composer execution. Then all configurations are done in that
folder (besides standing on your current project folder) and not in your project folder.
So far I haven't found a was to make a manual composer installation to
work globally on Windows. Perhaps you should go ahead with composer for windows installation mentioned above.
Do not access the composer by
composer composer.pher install
use
composer install
You can just try this command if you're already installed the Composer :
composer update
or if you want add some bundle to your composer try this :
composer require "/../"