PHP Composer Installation on OS Catalina

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Just tried to install composer on my new Macbook Pro. Ran into an issue when I tried to install it globally. I'm not sure if this operating system related or not.

My Steps

  1. sudo php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
  2. sudo php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'a5c698ffe4b8e849a443b120cd5ba38043260d5c4023dbf93e1558871f1f07f58274fc6f4c93bcfd858c6bd0775cd8d1') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
  3. sudo php composer-setup.php
  4. sudo php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
  5. sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Problem

I can run composer if I access it directly. php composer.phar works just fine. But I can't get it to work globally by moving it to the /usr/local/bin/composer directory.

Question

Is this operating system related? And if you could shed anymore light onto the issue that would be great.

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2 Answers

The answer is no, it is not operating system related.

In this case, I made the mistake of moving composer.phar into a folder named composer. So the structure was this: /usr/local/bin/composer/composer.phar. The correct approach is to rename composer.phar to composer, making the structure /usr/local/bin/composer.

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To get it working globally, create the the bin directory

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin

After that, simply move it to the directory you created.

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