Installation / Installing Composer

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Since Bolt 3.0 production installs are based around Composer installation methodology, by default. Even if you install from a distribution archive file, you are basically getting a pre-prepared Composer install.

Getting Composer¶

If you don't have Composer installed on your system already, it can be obtained from the Composer project website, or by running the following command:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Tip: The Bolt documentation assumes that you have renamed composer.phar to composer. If not, you can use php composer.phar wherever composer is used in command line snippets.