How to Install PHP Composer on Ubuntu 20 04 and 18 04

Linux

Install composer in ubuntu 20.04/18.04

php composer is a package dependency management tool for PHP used by developers to manage their PHP based applications.composer is used in all modern PHP frameworks and platforms such as Laravel, Symfony, Drupal, and Magento etc.

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Step 1: Install packages

Composer requried PHP to be installed on your system.if php is not installed on your system, you can install it with below commands.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-bcmath php-xml php-gd php-mysql php-zip php-cli php-soap

check php version

php -v

output:

PHP 7.4.3 (cli) (built: May 26 2020 12:24:22) ( NTS )

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Step 2: Install php composer

download the composer executable file using curl.

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

To make composer globally available, move it to the binary folder /usr/local/bin as shown below.

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer
source ~/.bashrc

check composer version

ubuntu@ubuntu20:~$ composer -v
   ______
  / ____/___  ____ ___  ____  ____  ________  _____
 / /   / __ \/ __ `__ \/ __ \/ __ \/ ___/ _ \/ ___/
/ /___/ /_/ / / / / / / /_/ / /_/ (__  )  __/ /
\____/\____/_/ /_/ /_/ .___/\____/____/\___/_/
                    /_/
Composer version 1.10.13 2020-09-09 11:46:34
Usage:
  command [options] [arguments]

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