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Reputation: 3552

Composer, no "$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin" folder

In a tutorial, after installing Composer like this : 

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

It recommends to do this change to shell configuration, so that Composer can install commands within the user account:

sed -i '1i export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"' $HOME/.bashrc

But in my case, in $HOME/.composer/ I DO NOT have a vendor folder. There's only a .htaccess file and a cache folder.

What's wrong? Is it because of a new version of Composer?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3844

Answers (1)

Pᴇʜ
Pᴇʜ

Reputation: 57683

This is when you don't have any packages installed globally (see Composer documentation for more info about global packages). These global packages are installed to $HOME/.composer/vendor/ and some might have a binary which would install into $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin.

To be able to run these binaries from any of your Composer projects it needs to be in your PATH:

sed -i '1i export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"' $HOME/.bashrc

So nothing is wrong. Just add this folder to your PATH. It should be no problem if this folder doesn't exist yet. It will be automatically created as soon as you install a global package with binaries (see example below).

Example

An example for a package which is a good idea to install globally instead of your projects folder is PHPUnit (a PHP Testing Framework). You can install it with 

composer global require "phpunit/phpunit=5.0.*"

If you have a look into your $HOME/.composer/vendor/ you will recognize a phpunit folder and also a bin folder.

Upvotes: 2

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