OSX -bash: composer: command not found

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
~: 

Solution 1

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 ...

Solution 2

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

Solution 3

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.

Solution 4

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

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

Solution 5

This works on Ubuntu;

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

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Comments

[Droppy]

chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/composer and add /usr/local/bin to $PATH in ~/.bash_profile. This is basic user stuff and does not belong here.

[bobbybackblech]

What exactly should i add to my .profile ? I updated my post with the content of my .profile

[Gromski]

So composer is now at /usr/local/bin/composer/composer.phar?

[Peyman Mohamadpour]

Same problem on mac os x 10.11.4 here with /usr/local/bin & /usr/local/bin/composer in the $PATH, still getting -bash: /usr/local/bin/composer/composer.phar: Permission denied

[Ashwani Garg]

@Pmpr Have you got any solution for permissions issue?

[Peyman Mohamadpour]

@AshwaniGarg Sorry, but dont remember that anymore.

[Gromski]

The fact that you're typing in "$" perhaps? That's just to signify your command line prompt, which typically is "$".

[Jeroen van Langen]

I'm getting a composer: Permission denied saw some solutions with sudo chmod but i'm getting sudo: not found (it's a synology (busybox))

[JGallardo]

Maybe that is why $ should not be included in answers. Seems obvious to us but not to new people. And it is also obvious that you don't need the $ for people to understand that you are talking about the terminal.

[gvanto]

I think including the $ is great (if you have problems understanding what the $ is for hmmm then maybe linux scripting is not for you?)

[Sanjay]

Yea it worked after creating alias. alias composer='/usr/local/bin/composer'

[theprojectabot]

You should chmod +x the binary instead of just turning off your csrutil ...

[greendino]

you should restart your terminal once you had done this

[lovecoding]

Great article! I have been searched a lot for this.

[Jonas de Herdt]

Why is this not in the documentation on composer! Ty @deceze

[Gromski]

@Jonas The Composer documentation doesn't advise creating any folders, and if you just follow exactly what it says, you won't see this problem at all: getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#globally

[Saitama]

After digging around. This is the only way that works for me on the mac.

[Dushan]

Yeah this works. you need to delete "composer" folder at the end of this path /usr/local/bin/composer then run the command mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

[James Hubert]

It's helpful to have the $ in stack overflow answers to signify the beginning of the command line.

[Ashwani Garg]

I tried this on MacOS M1, working like charm and saved my lot of time. Thanks for the solution

[Mohamed23gharbi]

@lone_coder you made my day, in fact I was stuck, and the solution was as simple as just restarting the terminal

[Michael Falciglia]

Me too, followed all the tutorials and they couldn't add one tiny line or two of information about the command being moved to /usr/local/bin/composer. They all say to run something like run "export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"" and it does not fix it!

[Ashwani Garg]

zsh: permission denied: composer

[Sean H]

I get php: command not found

[Arslan Ramay]

Works perfect on MacOS Monterey. Thanks!