Install Composer on CentOS 7

Last Updated: Tue, Oct 18, 2016 

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Introduction

Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you.

Requirements

• CentOS 7
• cURL
• PHP (including php-cli)

Installation

The installation process of Composer is relatively simple. First, let's get in the good habit of updating our server.

# sudo yum -y update

Switch into the temp directory.

# cd /tmp

Install Composer using cURL

# sudo curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Want to make Composer globally accessible?

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