вот такая вот бяка, правда не только уии, но и любой другой пакет так же
может просто кто знает в чем проблема
$ php composer.phar -V
Composer version 7c1042eef56f54df957f89487534db8b080c1c84 2014-01-03 17:22:05
$ php composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced advanced -v=3
[RuntimeException]
The "-=" option does not exist.
Exception trace:
() at phar:///home/lance/sites/composer.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Input/ArgvInput.php:128
Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput->parseShortOptionSet() at phar:///home/lance/sites/composer.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Input/ArgvInput.php:109
Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput->parseShortOption() at phar:///home/lance/sites/composer.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Input/ArgvInput.php:88
Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput->parse() at phar:///home/lance/sites/composer.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Input/Input.php:60
Symfony\Component\Console\Input\Input->bind() at phar:///home/lance/sites/composer.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Command/Command.php:226
Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run() at phar:///home/lance/sites/composer.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Application.php:897
Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand() at phar:///home/lance/sites/composer.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Application.php:191
Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun() at phar:///home/lance/sites/composer.phar/src/Composer/Console/Application.php:117
Composer\Console\Application->doRun() at phar:///home/lance/sites/composer.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Application.php:121
Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run() at phar:///home/lance/sites/composer.phar/src/Composer/Console/Application.php:83
Composer\Console\Application->run() at phar:///home/lance/sites/composer.phar/bin/composer:43
require() at /home/lance/sites/composer.phar:15
create-project [-s|--stability="..."] [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--repository-url="..."] [--dev] [--no-dev] [--no-plugins] [--no-custom-installers] [--no-scripts] [--no-progress] [--keep-vcs] [--no-install] [package] [directory] [version]