# Install Composer on Ubuntu

Based on the official instruction here: https://getcomposer.org/doc/faqs/how-to-install-composer-programmatically.md

## Install PHP CLI

```
sudo apt install --assume-yes php-cli unzip
```

## Download the executable phar directly from the github commit

You may replace the commit hash by whatever the last commit hash is on https://github.com/composer/getcomposer.org/commits/main

```
cd ~
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/composer/getcomposer.org/d3b829dc7a936a67d4fb9baf7e3502cb55d77548/web/installer -O - -q | php -- --quiet
```

## Install the executable phar file to ubuntu

```
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
```

## Try to run the composer

```
composer
```