Comments on: Install Composer on Synology

By: Valery Letroye

Valery Letroye — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 09:34:45 +0000

In reply to Donald. No. You have to install it only once, with one version of PHP.

By: Donald

Donald — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 02:31:52 +0000

When I install this, I haven’t yet, but when I do, do I have to install it for every version of php I have installed on my Synology NAS? I currently have all four available versions installed, php 5.6, 7.0, 7.2, 7.3.

Thanks in Advance! 🙂
-Donald

By: Valery Letroye

Valery Letroye — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 20:46:36 +0000

In reply to Eric H. Bowen. Alas no, I have no experience at all with installing patches.

By: Eric H. Bowen

Eric H. Bowen — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 02:45:58 +0000

My Composer installation is unable to install patches. I get the output, “sh: patch: command not found”. Apparently there’s a missing CLI ‘patch’ command that Composer is looking for. Do you know where I can find it and how to install it on a Synology RackStation (current firmware)?

By: Valery Letroye

Valery Letroye — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:51:57 +0000

In reply to MJ. Thx for posting this feedback!

By: MJ

MJ — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:45:14 +0000

Thanks!
Just in case somebody has the same experience I had: For me this to work I had to follow
https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?t=135390#p499881
Here is what I did:

First I followed your instructions to the letter (enabled phar, as curl and openssl were already enabled. For both php 5.6 and 7.0) first, but on the command line, gave me errors:

root@NAS:~# cd /usr/local/bin
root@NAS:/usr/local/bin# curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php56
Some settings on your machine make Composer unable to work properly.
Make sure that you fix the issues listed below and run this script again:

The phar extension is missing.
Install it or recompile php without –disable-phar

root@NAS:/usr/local/bin#

So I tried instead the instructions in this post https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?t=135390#p499881

and here is the result:

root@NAS:/usr/local/bin# curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php — –install-dir=/usr/local/bin –filename=composer
All settings correct for using Composer
Downloading…

Composer (version 1.6.3) successfully installed to: /usr/local/bin/composer
Use it: php /usr/local/bin/composer

root@NAS:/usr/local/bin# composer –version
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Composer version 1.6.3 2018-01-31 16:28:17
root@NAS:/usr/local/bin#

Hope this helps others that may experience the same. Cheers!
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