I went through the same thing, and ended up having to install composer anyhow. The good news is that if you install the laravel.phar, you should be able to install composer.phar. After that,
php composer.phar update
or if you changed the composer.phar to an executable "composer"
composer update
should do it. Just make sure you issue the command in same directory that you installed laravel.
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