PHP Fatal Error: PharException exception exception with message manifest

Question

when trying to install composer.phar through the command line, I 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 install symfony2.1

Answer 1

For some reason you have a damaged phar. Try downloading a new one from https://getcomposer.org/download/ - if the CLI instructions do not work for you, you can simply download the last snapshot manually from https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar