Installing laravel and composer on Debian 6

Question

I want to use laravel, so, firstly I have to install composer, I uploaded laravel in a folder "laravel" now i go to the folder and I do this

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

according the site of composer...

So, now, according laravel I should do this

composer create-project laravel/laravel

but returns "composer command not found"

When I finished installing composer I get this Use it: php composer.phar

So, I try again php composer.phar create-project laravel/laravel

and it runs,but it stays as Installing dependencies (incluiding require-dev) for a long long time.

My enviroment is Debian 6, and its a cloud server, so, internet should not be a problem. It just stays like that, any idea what I'm doing wrong? How to solve this and make it run?

Thanks

Answer 1

$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
# if you're installing as root or privileged account, don't leave the permissions on default 777
$ chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/composer
$ composer install