permission denied for composer in /usr/local/bin/

Question

I followed the documentation on https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#globally to install composer globally on arch linux. When I do composer self-update, I g

Answer 1

this might be the case if you have downloaded composer.phar directly ,

but not by running php composer-setup.php

make composer.phar executable with following command before moving it to /usr/local/bin/composer or after moving

sudo chmod 755 composer.phar

composer-setup.php will make this change for us by default