Running composer in a different directory than current

Question

I don\'t know if this question has been asked, because searching finds results mostly about moving the libraries installation directory.

I have a globally installed comp

Answer 1

In addition to the above answer from Tomáš Votruba i had to append the = charachter on OSX. So the full command would be:

composer install -d=/home/someuser/myproject

My first post on SO so was unable to simply add this as a comment.