In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure PHP Composer on Debian 8 Jessie. For those of you who didn’t know, Composer is an incredible dependency manager tool used to install and upgrade libraries for dynamic, PHP applications and projects. This software is used to facilitate the installation and update of the project dependencies which also show the appropriate versions required for the project requirements.
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 PHP Composer on a Debian 8 (Jessie) server.
Prerequisites
- A server running one of the following operating systems: Debian 8 (Jessie).
- 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 useror access to theroot user. We recommend acting as anon-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.
Install PHP Composer on Debian 8 Jessie
Step 1. Before we install any software, it’s important to make sure your system is up to date by running the following apt-get commands in the terminal:
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
Step 2. Installing Composer.
Download and install Composer by executing the following command:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Once the process completes, you can make the ‘composer.phar’ file executable by running the following command:
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer
Testing composer installation:
composer -V
You can rerun the below commands to upgrade the composer. The composer also has the capabilities to update itself. Use the following command to upgrade the composer:
composer self-update
Congratulations! You have successfully installed PHP Composer. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing PHP Composer on Debian 8 Jessie server. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official PHP Composer website.
