Composer on uberspace
2012-07-31
How can I install composer on uberspace?
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Background
I am going to install symfony on my uberspace account. To do so, I want to use composer as suggested on the symfony download page.
Prelude: personal bin folder
In order to have composer in the $PATH, I created a folder ~/bin and added it to
my .profile file which I had to create (thankfully emacs is available by default).
$ mkdir ~/bin
$ emacs ~/.profile # use nano or vi(m) if you prefer, even joe is available
# add the following line
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
# and reload the configuration (no need to logout/relogin)
$ source ~/.profile
# . ~/.profile would work as well
Installing composer
For some reason the first two attempts didn't work:
$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=bin
Thus I used wget, which promptly complains about the certificate, which again means I need to
do it like this:
$ wget --no-check-certificate https://getcomposer.org/installer
Now I run the installer and move it to ~/bin, omitting the .phar extension
$ php installer
All settings correct for using Composer
Downloading...
Composer successfully installed to: /home/dave/composer.phar
Use it: php composer.phar
$ mv composer.phar ~/bin/composer
That's it. Composer is set up and can be run:
$ composer about
Composer - Package Management for PHP
Composer is a package manager tracking local dependencies of your projects and libraries.
See http://getcomposer.org/ for more information.
Continue with symfony
Next up: Install symfony on uberspace