# 3.3 Composer Install The preferred method to install Phing is through [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/). Add [phing/phing](https://packagist.org/packages/phing/phing) to the `require-dev` or `require` of your project's `composer.json` configuration file, and run `composer install`: ``` { "require-dev": { "phing/phing": "3.*" } } ```