How To Install Composer on CentOS Stream 9

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Composer on CentOS Stream 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Composer is a dependency manager for the programming language, PHP. It functions as some sort of project manager that helps the programmer manage dependencies that will be used on a project-to-project basis. Composer supports all the latest PHP platforms and frameworks like Magento, Laravel, etc.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Composer on a CentOS Stream 9.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: CentOS 9 Stream.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Composer on CentOS Stream 9

Step 1. First of all, make sure that all packages are up to date.

sudo dnf update
sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"

Step 2. Installing Composer on CentOS Stream 9.

By default, Composer is not available on CentOS Stream 9 base repository. Now we download and run the Composer set up script:

wget https://getcomposer.org/installer -O composer-installer.php

Then, run the downloaded composer installation script:

php composer-installer.php --filename=composer --install-dir=/usr/local/bin

Verify the installation by printing the Composer’s version using this command in the terminal:

composer --version

Output:

[root@idroot.us ~]# composer
   ______
  / ____/___  ____ ___  ____  ____  ________  _____
 / /   / __ / __ `__ / __ / __ / ___/ _ / ___/
/ /___/ /_/ / / / / / / /_/ / /_/ (__  )  __/ /
\____/\____/_/ /_/ /_/ .___/\____/____/\___/_/
                    /_/
Composer version 2.1.16 2022-01-29 11:51:41

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

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Composer. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Composer on CentOS Stream 9 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Composer website.