OSX -bash: composer: command not found

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Question

If i type "composer" i get the above error message.

I did on my macbook:

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

to install Composer globally.

I had to manually create the /local/bin/composer directory, maybe this caused the error ?

php composer.phar

works if i in my code directory where the .phar file is.

What could i do to solve the problem and run composer globally ?

My ~/.profile

export PS1="\W: "
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=gxBxhxDxfxhxhxhxhxcxcx

~: echo $PATH

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/bin
~:
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Solution

The path /usr/local/bin/composer is not in your PATH, executables in that folder won't be found.

Delete the folder /usr/local/bin/composer, then run

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

This moves composer.phar into /usr/local/bin/ and renames it into composer (which is still an executable, not a folder).

Then just use it like:

$ composer ...

OTHER TIPS

Well I tried a lot of things but none seemed to be working. But the following process did it right, I can now use composer command in terminal. I'm in mac OS 10.12.1

$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ chmod +x composer.phar
$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
$ composer

I get into the same issue even after moving the composer.phar to '/usr/local/bin/composer' using the following command in amazon linux.

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

I used the following command to create a alias for the composer file. So now its running globally.

alias composer='/usr/local/bin/composer'

I don't know whether this will work in OS-X. But when i search with this issue i get this link. So I'm just posting here. Hope this will help someone.

Tested on Mac OSX after installing via instructions on composer website:

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

This works on Ubuntu;

alias composer='/usr/local/bin/composer/composer.phar'

Globally install Composer on OS X 10.11 El Capitan

This command will NOT work in OS X 10.11:

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

Instead, let's write to the /usr/local/bin path for the user:

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

Now we can access the composer command globally, just like before.

On Mac OS X, for anyone having:

-bash: /usr/local/bin/composer: Permission denied

problem, while trying to move downloaded composer.phar using:

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

this is the cause:

System Integrity Protection

and this is the solution:

  1. Reboot in recovery mode: restart you mac and hold down cmd+R.
  2. Open the terminal once recovery mode has started via Utilities>Terminal via the bar at the top.
  3. Type in csrutil disable and hit enter. You should see a msg returned saying that:

    the System Integrity Protection is off.

  4. Restart the computer as normal and then go set up composer. I had to put it in /usr/bin and NOT /usr/local/bin because for some reason it just didn't work there.
  5. Go back to recovery mode and enable System Integrity Protector by typing csrutil enable
  6. Come back in normal boot up and check that composer works. It did for me.

The above 6 steps are copied from here, so all the credit belongs to the user Vasheer there.

this wasted me a day or two. like why dont anybody say on tutorials that the command composer is not to be used without actually linking and stuff... I mean everyone is writing composer command like its the next step when we are not all 5 years experienced users to know these details.

cp composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

did it for me on ubuntu after getting stuck for 2 days

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