Symfony: command not found

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I am trying working with symfony since past couple of months. Last night I did an auto remove to purge not needed repositories. After that I have not been able to create a new symfony project using the symfony command. When I run Symfony new SecurityDemo 2.8.1 in the terminal, I get the error

Symfony: command not found

I tried installing the Symfony Installer again as directed in the documentation http://symfony.com/doc/current/setup.html. I went to my root directory and followed the installation procedure as shown in the screenshot

Still I get the same error.

All help is appreciated.

EDIT:

I am working with LAMP and am using PHP 5.6.

When I try to update the symfony Installer using symfony self-update I get the output

// Symfony Installer is already updated to the latest version (1.5.8).

Stéphan BERGER · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-24 21:21:43Z

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Add the following line to your shell configuration file:

export PATH="$HOME/.symfony/bin:$PATH"

answered Sep 24, 2020 at 21:21

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Stéphan BERGER Over a year ago

The shell configuration files are '~/.bashrc' and '~/.profile' in the home directory

Gloria Chen Over a year ago

To edit ~./bashrc in Linux, you can use sudo gedit ~/.bashrc

Martijn van der Bruggen Over a year ago

Don't forget to re 'source' your terminal session after adding to PATH or restart terminal window. source ~/.bashrc

Xanlantos · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-22 09:38:58Z

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For me the fix was to reinstall symfony:

curl -sS https://get.symfony.com/cli/installer | bash

see here https://symfony.com/download

as far as I experienced, it does not tamper with the environment.

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martin · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-13 11:54:06Z

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If you're sure you installed the symfony command properly you have to call it with lowercase s and not Symfony.

The correct command is:

$ symfony new SecurityDemo 2.8.1

http://symfony.com/doc/current/setup.html#basing-your-project-on-a-specific-symfony-version

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discretematt · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-07 06:48:00Z

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After Symfony CLI is installed successfully, you run the command below

sudo mv /home/{username}/.symfony5/bin/symfony /usr/local/bin/symfony

to install it globally on your system

Replace {username} with your actual username.

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Matteo · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-13 11:49:05Z

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Try call Symfony it in lowercase as example:

>symfony new SecurityDemo 2.8.1

Hope this help

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Stephen Kennedy · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-12 10:11:18Z

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I had the same problem. The right command would be:

php symfony new SecurityDemo 2.8.1

Not sure why it would not work without the word php even though the documentation does not prescribe it.

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Ivica Pesovski · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-08 18:40:44Z

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cd your-project/
composer require symfony/web-server-bundle --dev
php bin/console server:start

Working beautifully for me on Fedora 33 Workstation

base: https://symfony.com/doc/4.0/setup/built_in_web_server.html

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jjoselon · Accepted Answer · 2022-12-18 18:24:10Z

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When you run curl -sS https://get.symfony.com/cli/installer | bash to install Symfony CLI Installer. After installation run either of the next commands:

Use it as a local file:
  /root/.symfony5/bin/symfony

Or add the following line to your shell configuration file:
  export PATH="$HOME/.symfony5/bin:$PATH"

Or install it globally on your system:
  mv /root/.symfony5/bin/symfony /usr/local/bin/symfony

Then start a new shell and run 'symfony'

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utkarsh2k2 · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-13 12:13:24Z

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Turns out that I cannot use capital 'S' in symfony. using symfony new project_name did the trick.

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pavan ganvani · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-18 04:24:42Z

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The Right Command is

symfony new SecurityDemo 2.8.1

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nur zazin · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-27 12:23:51Z

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If you can’t use the Symfony installer for any reason, you can create Symfony applications with Composer, the dependency manager used by modern PHP applications.

composer create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition SecurityDemo "2.8.1"

make sure you've already install composer.

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Stephan Vierkant · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-20 19:46:35Z

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try this

composer require symfony/flex
composer install

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Stephan Vierkant Over a year ago

You don't need to install after require.

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