Remove composer

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.


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.


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