On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 12:40, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi. > > Running ubuntu 20.04. > > trying to run the cmd: > sudo -u www-data -composer create-project laravel/laravel test As you have a - in front of composer, it is taking that as a parameter of sudo. If composer is a command then drop the -. Colin L.