PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception PharException with message manifest

Question

while trying to install composer.phar through command line , got an error

 PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PharException' with message manifest cannot be larger than 100 mb in phar

please support me to solve this problem, i am trying to installing symfony2.1

Answer 1

It appears you got a corrupted phar for some reason. Try downloading a new one from https://getcomposer.org/download/ - if the CLI instructions do not work out for you you can just download the last snapshot by hand from https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar