How to Install composer software package in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

How to Install composer software package in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

composer software package provides dependency manager for PHP, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install composer 

composer is installed in your system.

Make ensure the composer package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep composer *

You will get with composer package name, version, architecture and description in a table

composer package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus
Section PHP
Package composer
Version 1.0.0~beta2-1
Description dependency manager for PHP
Sub Section PHP


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