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 /us         


        

Answer 1

On Mac OS X, for anyone having:

-bash: /usr/local/bin/composer: Permission denied

problem, while trying to move downloaded composer.phar using:

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

this is the cause:

System Integrity Protection

and this is the solution:

1. Reboot in recovery mode: restart you mac and hold down cmd+R.
2. Open the terminal once recovery mode has started via Utilities>Terminal via the bar at the top.
3. Type in csrutil disable and hit enter. You should see a msg returned saying that:

   the System Integrity Protection is off.

4. Restart the computer as normal and then go set up composer. I had to put it in /usr/bin and NOT /usr/local/bin because for some reason it just didn't work there.
5. Go back to recovery mode and enable System Integrity Protector by typing csrutil enable
6. Come back in normal boot up and check that composer works. It did for me.

The above 6 steps are copied from here, so all the credit belongs to the user Vasheer there.