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chemitaxis
chemitaxis

Reputation: 14917

Laravel PHP command not found

I installed Laravel using Composer without problems, but when I try to run laravel in the terminal, I get the following error:

-bash: laravel: command not found

The docs say that I need to do the following:

Make sure to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your PATH so the laravel executable is found when you run the laravel command in your terminal.

How can I do that?

Upvotes: 248

Views: 316479

Answers (19)

gilcierweb
gilcierweb

Reputation: 2744

Solution in link. In the terminal:

# download installer
composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"
#setting up path
export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH" 
# check laravel command
laravel 

# download installer
composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"

nano ~/.bashrc

#add

alias laravel='~/.composer/vendor/bin/laravel'

source ~/.bashrc

laravel

# going to html dir to create project there
cd /var/www/html/
# install project in blog dir.
laravel new blog

Upvotes: 95

Shubham A.
Shubham A.

Reputation: 2534

If you are on macOS or *nix just run this in your terminal:

export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Upvotes: 14

Chweng Mega
Chweng Mega

Reputation: 1668

When using MacBook, refer to the snippets below;

For fish:

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"' >>  ~/.fishrc
source ~/.fishrc

For zsh:

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"' >>  ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

For Bash:

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Upvotes: 112

Ahmed Magdy
Ahmed Magdy

Reputation: 1246

If you are coming here 2021 this has worked for me also using Ubuntu 16.04

nano ~/.bash_profile 
export PATH=$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH
ctrl+x and save 
source ~/.bash_profile

Upvotes: 12

alex toader
alex toader

Reputation: 2428

My quick way of creating a new project

//install composer locally on web root - run the code from: https://getcomposer.org/download/

Then install laravel:

php composer.phar require laravel/installer

Then create the project without adding anything to any path

vendor/laravel/installer/bin/laravel new [ProjectName]

//add project to git

cd ProjectName
git init
git remote add origin git@...[youGitPathToProject]

Wondering if this way of doing it has any issues - please let me know

Upvotes: 0

R T
R T

Reputation: 4559

Add the following to .bashrc file (not .bash_profile).

export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

at the end of the file and then in terminal run source ~/.bashrc

To verify that:

echo $PATH

(Restart the terminal, Check & Confirm the path is there)

Run the laravel command!

Note: For Ubuntu 16 and above use below:

export PATH="~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Upvotes: 272

Yeshi
Yeshi

Reputation: 307

Composer should be installed globally: Run this in your terminal:

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

Now composer commands will work.

Upvotes: 0

chemitaxis
chemitaxis

Reputation: 14917

Ok, I did that and it works:

nano ~/.bash_profile

And paste

export PATH=~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH

do source ~/.bash_profile and enjoy ;)

Important: If you want to know the difference between bash_profile and bashrc please check this link

Note: For Ubuntu 16.04 running laravel 5.1, the path is: ~/.config/composer/vendor/bin

On other platforms: To check where your Composer global directory is, run composer global about. Add /vendor/bin to the directory that gets listed after "Changed current directory to ..." to get the path you should add to your PATH.

Upvotes: 386

Suman Sarkar
Suman Sarkar

Reputation: 26

Late answer...

Composer 1.10.1 2020-03-13 20:34:27 laravel --version Laravel Installer 3.0.1

Put export PATH=$PATH:~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH in your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc source ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc This works

Upvotes: 0

Amir Kaftari
Amir Kaftari

Reputation: 1524

Just use it:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel youprojectname

Upvotes: -3

Maii T
Maii T

Reputation: 31

type on terminal:

nano ~/.bash_profile

then paste:

export PATH="/Users/yourusername/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

then save (press ctrl+c, press Y, press enter)

now you are ready to use "laravel" on your terminal

Upvotes: 3

Ian Pinto
Ian Pinto

Reputation: 2299

If you have Composer installed globally, you can install the Laravel installer tool using command below:

composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"

Upvotes: 1

zhaolion
zhaolion

Reputation: 41

I set the PATH,but it didn't work.I find other way to solve it. (OSX 10.10 & laravel 5.2)
1) find the executable file: 

~/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/laravel

2) give execute permissions: 

chmod +x ~/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/laravel

3) make a soft link to /usr/bin: 

sudo ln -s /Users/zhao/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/laravel /usr/bin/laravel

Upvotes: 4

Md Rasel Ahmed
Md Rasel Ahmed

Reputation: 1043

For zsh and bash:

export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

source ~/.zshrc
source ~/.bashrc

For bash only:

export PATH=~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH

source ~/.bashrc

Upvotes: 23

Đorđe Nilović
Đorđe Nilović

Reputation: 3739

For MAC users:

1. Open terminal

cd ~

2. Double check the $PATH

echo $PATH

3. Edit file 

nano ~/.bash_profile

4. PASTE

export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Don't forget to put quotation marks.

5. control + X (y + enter to save the file and exit)

Now start vagrant, go to your folder and try:

laravel new yourprojectname

Upvotes: 4

guizo
guizo

Reputation: 3125

For those using Linux with Zsh:

1 - Add this line to your .zshrc file

export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

2 - Run 

source ~/.zshrc
  • Linux path to composer folder is different from Mac
  • Use $HOME instead of ~ inside the path with Zsh
  • The .zshrc file is hidden in the Home folder
  • export PATH= exports the path in quotes so that the Laravel executable can be located by your system
  • The :$PATH is to avoid overriding what was already in the system path

Upvotes: 8

Gujarat Santana
Gujarat Santana

Reputation: 10564

If you're using Ubuntu 16.04.

  1. You need to find the composer config files in my case is :
    ~/.config/composer or in other cases ~/.composer/
    you can see the dir after this command
    composer global require "laravel/installer"

  2. after Laravel Installed you can find your laravel in ~/.config/composer/vendor/laravel/installer/.
    and you will find the Laravel shortcut command in here :
    ~/.config/composer/vendor/bin/

  3. set your .bashrc using nano ~/.bashrc and export your composer config file :

    export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin"

    or you can use allias. but above solution is recommended.

    alias laravel='~/.config/composer/vendor/laravel/installer/laravel'

  4. Now refresh your bashrc using source ~/.bashrc and then laravel is ready!!

above steps works with me in Ubuntu 16.04

Upvotes: 41

MuriloReinert
MuriloReinert

Reputation: 561

Type on terminal: 

 composer global require "laravel/installer"

When composer finish, type:

vi ~/.bashrc

Paste and save:

export PATH="~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Type on terminal:

source ~/.bashrc

Open another terminal window and type: laravel

Upvotes: 46

Sophy
Sophy

Reputation: 9285

For Developers use zsh Add the following to .zshrc file

vi ~/.zshrc or nano ~/.zshrc

export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

at the end of the file.

zsh doesn't know ~ so instead it by use $HOME.

source ~/.zshrc

Done! try command laravel you will see.

Upvotes: 18

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