Composer helps you declare, manage, and install dependencies of PHP projects.

See https://getcomposer.org/ for more information and documentation.

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PHP 7.2.5 or above for the latest version.

PHP versions 5.3.2 - 8.1 are still supported via the LTS releases of Composer (2.2.x). If you run the installer or the self-update command the appropriate Composer version for your PHP should be automatically selected.

• 7z (or 7zz)
• unzip (if 7z is missing)
• gzip
• tar
• unrar
• xz
• Git (git)
• Mercurial (hg)
• Fossil (fossil)
• Perforce (p4)
• Subversion (svn)

It's important to note that the need for these binary dependencies may vary depending on individual use cases. However, for most users, only 2 dependencies are essential for Composer: 7z (or 7zz or unzip), and git.

• Nils Adermann | GitHub | Twitter | [email protected] | naderman.de
• Jordi Boggiano | GitHub | Twitter | [email protected] | seld.be

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

Please send any sensitive issue to [email protected]. Thanks!

Composer is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

• This project's Solver started out as a PHP port of openSUSE's Libzypp satsolver.

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