Installing phpunit globally on Ubuntu

11/11/2014 - LINUX, PHP

This post shows you how to install phpunit globally so that you and your applications can access it from anywhere while running tests.


Current status


inanzzz@inanzzz:~$ phpunit --version
The program 'phpunit' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install phpunit

Get package


inanzzz@inanzzz:~$ wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar
--2015-03-27 19:46:12--  https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar
Resolving phar.phpunit.de (phar.phpunit.de)... 188.94.27.25
Connecting to phar.phpunit.de (phar.phpunit.de)|188.94.27.25|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3411356 (3.3M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘phpunit.phar’

100%[==============================================================================>] 3,411,356    881KB/s   in 3.9s   

2015-03-27 19:46:17 (846 KB/s) - ‘phpunit.phar’ saved [3411356/3411356]

Grant executable permissions


inanzzz@inanzzz:~$ chmod +x phpunit.phar

Move


Path /usr/local/bin/ is for programs that user can run.


inanzzz@inanzzz:~$ sudo mv phpunit.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit
[sudo] password for inanzzz:

Check


inanzzz@inanzzz:~$ phpunit --version
PHPUnit 4.5.0 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.