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
composer self-update
On Ubuntu server >= 16.04
FIRST
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/composer
AND
cd ~/.cache/composer chmod 755 composer-temp.phar sudo mv composer-temp.phar /usr/local/bin/composer