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Hello,
I'm trying to install laravel to run a project my company made. But first i need composer to run globaly. So i can run composer from everywhere by saying "composer". I've seen people use lines like:
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
but i work on windows and i'm stuck.
I cant figure out how to do it. I already looked up some forums for this but i didnt get it or it didn't work.
IMPORTANT: i'm a beginner with this so don't go hard on me if i don't get it right away.
Greetings,
Geert V
Hello,
I also work on Windows, and I found it very useful to use the package manager called Chocolatey (via powershell) and it has helped me install all the required dependencies and usually puts the stuff you install into the your PATH environment variables, which is where they become "globally" available!
The best way to install composer on windows is to use the installer provided
if u have not installed through the .exe then try the instructions in the following link.
https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-windows
@tobyreed Thank you for your help, i'm working with it right now. but now i am at the message: Do you want to run the script?([Y]es/[A]ll - yes to all/[N]o/[print): -y
How to i repy to yes to all? I don't see what i have to reply haha.
Thanks already, hope to see a reply from you
Greetings,
Geert
i don't get it what you are saying... if you are asking in between installation click "yes" i guess.. u need to specify the php installation path when it asks it is a dependency for composer..
To reply to all, I think you just do "yes" instead of just "y"! Glad I could help, I am relatively new too!
@tobyreed thank you thank you! it worked!!!
@geertvdv welcome, enjoy and make some awesome projects! :)
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