How to Install and Uninstall composer Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "composer" package

This is a short guide on how to install composer on Debian 10 (Buster)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install composer

2. Uninstall "composer" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall composer on Debian 10 (Buster):

$ sudo apt remove composer $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the composer package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: composer
Version: 1.8.4-1+deb10u1
Installed-Size: 1883
Maintainer: Debian PHP PEAR Maintainers
Architecture: all
Depends: php-cli, php-common, php-composer-ca-bundle (>= 1.0), php-composer-ca-bundle (<< 2~~), php-composer-semver (>= 1.0), php-composer-semver (<< 2~~), php-composer-spdx-licenses (>= 1.2), php-composer-spdx-licenses (<< 2~~), php-composer-xdebug-handler (>= 1.1), php-composer-xdebug-handler (<< 2~~), php-json-schema, php-psr-log (>= 1.0), php-psr-log (<< 2~~), jsonlint (>= 1.4), jsonlint (<< 2~~), php-symfony-console, php-symfony-filesystem, php-symfony-finder, php-symfony-process
Recommends: git, unzip
Suggests: fossil, mercurial, subversion, php-zip
Breaks: php-symfony-console (= 2.8.38)
Description: dependency manager for PHP
Description-md5: 74ebdf74b7ac8e4972f9fe5d5f5b0b21
Homepage: https://getcomposer.org/
Section: php
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/composer/composer_1.8.4-1+deb10u1_all.deb
Size: 336768
MD5sum: 90b3a51df115b90c87deac9eb20879a6
SHA256: 15f62c60c36fb27009a9e8a3fc8ce0eda5adff04b74dd0692b84a1fe7118520e