How To Install composer on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install composer on CentOS 7. composer is Dependency Manager for PHP

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install composer on CentOS 7.

What is composer

Composer helps you declare, manage and install dependencies of PHP projects, ensuring you have the right stack everywhere. Documentation

We can use yum or dnf to install composer on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install composer.

Install composer on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install composer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install composer

Install composer on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install composer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install composer

How To Uninstall composer on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the composer package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove composer

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install composer on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.