Remove composer

Question

I installed composer while trying to install cakePhp, but the installation was not successful and I want to uninstall composer. I am not finding any way to do this.

Answer 1

Uninstall composer

To remove just composer package itself from Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) execute on terminal:

sudo apt-get remove composer

Uninstall composer and it's dependent packages

To remove the composer package and any other dependant package which are no longer needed from Ubuntu Xenial.

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove composer

Purging composer

If you also want to delete configuration and/or data files of composer from Ubuntu Xenial then this will work:

sudo apt-get purge composer

To delete configuration and/or data files of composer and it's dependencies from Ubuntu Xenial then execute:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove composer

https://www.howtoinstall.co/en/ubuntu/xenial/composer?action=remove

Answer 2

If you install the composer as global on Ubuntu, you just need to find the composer location.

Use command

type composer

or

where composer

For Mac users, use command:

which composer

and then just remove the folder using rm command.

Answer 3

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

If you have installed by this way simply

Delete composer.phar from where you've putted it.

In this case path will be /usr/local/bin/composer

Note: There is no need to delete the exported path.

Answer 4

During the installation you got a message Composer successfully installed to: ... this indicates where Composer was installed. But you might also search for the file composer.phar on your system.

Then simply:

1. Delete the file composer.phar.
2. Delete the Cache Folder:
   • Linux: /home/<user>/.composer
   • Windows: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Composer

That's it.

Answer 5

Additional information about removing/uninstalling composer

Answers above did not help me, but what did help me is removing:

1. ~/.cache/composer
2. ~/.local/share/composer
3. ~/.config/composer

Hope this helps.