[Doc] Added a note to install composer globally

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Grégoire Pineau 12 years ago
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@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ any version beginning with `1.0`.
### Downloading the Composer Executable
#### Locally
To actually get Composer, we need to do two things. The first one is installing
Composer (again, this mean downloading it into your project):
@ -61,10 +63,19 @@ option and providing a target directory (it can be an absolute or relative path)
$ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=bin
#### Globally
You can place this file anywhere you wish. If you put it in your `PATH`,
you can access it globally. On unixy systems you can even make it
executable and invoke it without `php`.
You can run these commands to easily acces `composer` from anywhere on your system:
$ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Then, just run `composer` in order to run composer
### Using Composer
Next, run the `install` command to resolve and download dependencies:

@ -177,6 +177,11 @@ command. It will replace your `composer.phar` with the latest version.
$ php composer.phar self-update
If you have installed composer for your entire system (see [global installation](00-intro.md#globally)),
you have to run the command with `root` privileges
$ sudo composer self-update
## create-project
You can use Composer to create new projects from an existing package.

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