Composer - Dependency Management for PHP
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Composer helps you declare, manage, and install dependencies of PHP projects.

See [https://getcomposer.org/](https://getcomposer.org/) for more information and documentation.

[![Continuous Integration](https://github.com/composer/composer/workflows/Continuous%20Integration/badge.svg?branch=main)](https://github.com/composer/composer/actions)

Installation / Usage
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Download and install Composer by following the [official instructions](https://getcomposer.org/download/).

For usage, see [the documentation](https://getcomposer.org/doc/).

Packages
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Find packages on [Packagist](https://packagist.org).

Community
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Follow [@packagist](https://twitter.com/packagist) or [@seldaek](https://twitter.com/seldaek) on Twitter for announcements, or check the [#composerphp](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23composerphp&src=typed_query&f=live) hashtag.

For support, Stack Overflow offers a good collection of
[Composer related questions](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/composer-php), or you can use the [GitHub discussions](https://github.com/composer/composer/discussions).

Please note that this project is released with a
[Contributor Code of Conduct](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct/).
By participating in this project and its community you agree to abide by those terms.

Requirements
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PHP 5.3.2 or above (at least 5.3.4 recommended to avoid potential bugs)

Authors
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- Nils Adermann  | [GitHub](https://github.com/naderman)  | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/naderman) | <naderman@naderman.de> | [naderman.de](https://naderman.de)
- Jordi Boggiano | [GitHub](https://github.com/Seldaek) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/seldaek) | <j.boggiano@seld.be> | [seld.be](https://seld.be)

See also the list of [contributors](https://github.com/composer/composer/contributors) who participated in this project.

Security Reports
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Please send any sensitive issue to [security@packagist.org](mailto:security@packagist.org). Thanks!

License
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Composer is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

Acknowledgments
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- This project's Solver started out as a PHP port of openSUSE's
  [Libzypp satsolver](https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Libzypp_satsolver).