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

Composer is avialble and install the packages in the global path but they are not available in the shell, Mac in my case. I managed to fix this by adding the global bin to the path at my bash file.

Steps:

First, check what is your home directory by typing in the shell:

cd ~
pwd

this will tell you the home path

The next step is to verify that composer set the global directory there:

ls -al .composer

If you got list of files that's mean composer set up the directory, if not - look above or in the documentation.

The next step is to edit the bash profile. Mine is ~/.bash_profile but other can ~/.zshrc. If you don't have any one like this try to see how to set up aliases and place the the code in aliases file:

PATH="YOUR_HOME_PATH/.composer/vendor/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

That's it! just reload the file with

source PATH_TO_FILE

And you good to go!