Composer

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP.

Installation

Installing Composer.

$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
#!/usr/bin/env php
All settings correct for using Composer
Downloading...

Composer successfully installed to: /home/mhan/bin/tmp/composer.phar
Use it: php composer.phar

Make sure you have PHP (CLI version) installed. If you're the only developer on the machine, you may want to create a folder called ~/bin and put the generated composer file there. I usually rename mine to simply composer and then make it user executable. This way I can just invoke $ composer update from anywhere.

• Last tested on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (trusty) | easy | less than a minute