Composer: Command Not Found on Mac

Question

I have installed Composer as per the instructions command not found

After installing I get the prompt that Composer is successfully installed but when I go to check the version it gives me error "Composer: Command Not Found"

Answer 1

I had the same problem. "composer require something" works if installed in global and not locally.

If you install composer locally you'll then install dependencies using "php composer.phar require nameofyoudependency"

To install globally open a terminal to install as mentionned on the composer website. Then run "sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer"

Now you can use "composer" directly to install dependencies like => "composer require something/sdk"

Answer 2

I have been looking how to fix this issue and I had to read and understand little bit and the environment variables on MAC.

I understand the issue looks simple but it will get over complicated if you didn't understand how to install composer probably.

Solution 1

I found this solution here: https://duvien.com/blog/installing-composer-mac-osx

Open a terminal and navigate to your user directory, ie cd /User// Run this command shown below to download Composer. This will create a Phar (PHP Archive) file called composer.phar:

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

Now we move composer.phar file to a directory

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

We want to run Composer with having to be root al the time, so we need to change the permissions:

 sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/composer.phar

Next, we need to let Bash know where to execute Composer:

 nano ~/.bash_profile

Add this line below to bash_profile and save

alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer.phar" and then run this command:

 source ~/.bash_profile

Finally, run: composer --version

Solution 2:

I understand that the first command you will find online when you try to google this issue would be

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

But actually this is the main terminal installation but sometimes I wanted to manually install the composer, so this 2nd solution about manually installing the composer in specific directory

First of all you need to understand where are you now on the terminal use pwd and then install composer manually using the following commands

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') ==='baf1608c33254d00611ac1705c1d9958c817a1a33bce370c0595974b342601bd80b92a3f46067da89e3b06bff421f182') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; 
unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

to use it on that case you will read on the terminal to use this composer installation use Use it: php composer.phar

so just write php composer.phar

and it should be working.... one more thing, during this installation you can install the composer to specific directory / project folder... in that case you can use a flag with command No.4 to tell the terminal to install the composer in specific directory...this flag is --install-dir=your-directory-path

and you will the terminal this time after installing composer asking you to use the following path to call the composer

Use it: php /Users/muatafa/composer.phar

if you want to read more about this issue, I think you must read the composer documentation how to install it>>> https://getcomposer.org/download/

that's how I solved my current issue... if you still have any issues comment on this replay & Hopefully we can figure it out!

Answer 3

the composer you installed is still named /usr/local/bin/composer.phar - look in the second yellow/brownish line in your output. Just rename it to just composer

Answer 4

您的作曲家命令未设置为路径，请使用

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/

Answer 5

I had the same issue, After installing composer using the command line on their website. I forgot to put composer.phar into a directory on my PATH, so it can simply be called from any directory (Global install). and then I ran this command "sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer" and it was resolved

Answer 6

I figured out. in place of "composer require twilio/sdk" I needed to use

"composer.phar require twilio/sdk" since I am on mac. It worked