Symfony: command not found

Question

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).

score 25 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 24 '20 at 21:21

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Add the following line to your shell configuration file:

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

answered Sep 24 '20 at 21:21

Stéphan BERGER

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The shell configuration files are '~/.bashrc' and '~/.profile' in the home directory – Stéphan BERGER Jun 17 '21 at 13:09
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To edit `~./bashrc` in Linux, you can use `sudo gedit ~/.bashrc` – Gloria Chen Sep 27 '21 at 02:36
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Don't forget to re 'source' your terminal session after adding to PATH or restart terminal window. `source ~/.bashrc` – Martijn van der Bruggen Oct 03 '22 at 11:52

Xanlantos · Answer 2 · 2021-09-22T09:38:58.370

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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.

edited Sep 22 '21 at 09:38

answered Jan 13 '21 at 14:01

Xanlantos

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martin · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-13T11:54:06.290

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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

edited Oct 13 '16 at 11:54

answered Oct 13 '16 at 11:49

martin

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 13 '16 at 11:49

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Try call Symfony it in lowercase as example:

>symfony new SecurityDemo 2.8.1

Hope this help

answered Oct 13 '16 at 11:49

Matteo

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score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Apr 12 '18 at 10:11

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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.

edited Apr 12 '18 at 10:11

Stephen Kennedy

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answered Apr 12 '18 at 09:50

Jamal Eddine Mahjoub

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score 1 · Answer 6 · edited Apr 08 '21 at 18:40

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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

edited Apr 08 '21 at 18:40

Ivica Pesovski

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answered Apr 08 '21 at 00:32

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 07 '23 at 06:48

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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.

answered Mar 07 '23 at 06:48

discretematt

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 13 '16 at 12:13

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

answered Oct 13 '16 at 12:13

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Nov 18 '16 at 04:24

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The Right Command is

symfony new SecurityDemo 2.8.1

answered Nov 18 '16 at 04:24

pavan ganvani

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Aug 27 '20 at 12:23

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.

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Dec 18 '22 at 18:24

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'

score -1 · Answer 12 · edited Jul 20 '21 at 19:46

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try this

composer require symfony/flex
composer install

edited Jul 20 '21 at 19:46

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answered Jul 20 '21 at 18:37

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You don't need to install after require. – Stephan Vierkant Jul 20 '21 at 19:47

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