How To Install PHP Composer on Fedora 36/35/34

Composer is a dependency management tool for PHP similar to npm for nodejs and bundle for ruby. Using the composer tool we can define the required libraries for our project and install them with the composer in a single command. We don’t need to search for each library individually to install each time.

This tutorial will help you to install PHP Composer on Fedora 34/33/32/31/30 Linux. We are assuming that you already have installed PHP on your system.

Prerequisites

• Sudo privileged account with shell access.
• You must have PHP installed on your system.

Install Composer on Fedora

PHP Composer is available as a binary file to directly download and use. Open the terminal and download the composer binary file using the curl command-line tool.

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

Now use the following commands to make composer available globally for all users in your system, which can be used for all PHP applications on that system.

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

To find the version of the composer simply use the following command. This will also show you the uses of the composer on the command line.

composer -V  

Yo will see the output like below:

   ______
  / ____/___  ____ ___  ____  ____  ________  _____
 / /   / __ \/ __ `__ \/ __ \/ __ \/ ___/ _ \/ ___/
/ /___/ /_/ / / / / / / /_/ / /_/ (__  )  __/ /
\____/\____/_/ /_/ /_/ .___/\____/____/\___/_/
                    /_/
Composer version 2.1.14 2021-11-30 10:51:43

Usage:
  command [options] [arguments]

Options:
  -h, --help                     Display this help message
  -q, --quiet                    Do not output any message
  -V, --version                  Display this application version
      --ansi                     Force ANSI output
      --no-ansi                  Disable ANSI output
  -n, --no-interaction           Do not ask any interactive question
      --profile                  Display timing and memory usage information
      --no-plugins               Whether to disable plugins.
  -d, --working-dir=WORKING-DIR  If specified, use the given directory as working directory.
      --no-cache                 Prevent use of the cache

Update Composer

If there is an upgrade available, Composer displays the information with every run. Composer is built with the ability to upgrade itself. You just need to run the following command to update composer.phar to the latest version.

composer self-update