diff --git a/src/Composer/Command/CreateProjectCommand.php b/src/Composer/Command/CreateProjectCommand.php
index 1a3086ed8..8efd88725 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Command/CreateProjectCommand.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Command/CreateProjectCommand.php
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ class CreateProjectCommand extends Command
                 new InputOption('dev', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Whether to install dependencies for development.'),
                 new InputOption('no-custom-installers', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Whether to disable custom installers.'),
                 new InputOption('no-scripts', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Whether to prevent execution of all defined scripts in the root package.'),
+                new InputOption('no-progress', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Do not output download progress.'),
                 new InputOption('keep-vcs', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Whether to prevent deletion vcs folder.'),
             ))
             ->setHelp(<<<EOT
@@ -102,11 +103,12 @@ EOT
             $input->getOption('repository-url'),
             $input->getOption('no-custom-installers'),
             $input->getOption('no-scripts'),
+            $input->getOption('no-progress'),
             $input->getOption('keep-vcs')
         );
     }
 
-    public function installProject(IOInterface $io, $packageName, $directory = null, $packageVersion = null, $stability = 'stable', $preferSource = false, $preferDist = false, $installDevPackages = false, $repositoryUrl = null, $disableCustomInstallers = false, $noScripts = false, $keepVcs = false)
+    public function installProject(IOInterface $io, $packageName, $directory = null, $packageVersion = null, $stability = 'stable', $preferSource = false, $preferDist = false, $installDevPackages = false, $repositoryUrl = null, $disableCustomInstallers = false, $noScripts = false, $noProgress = false, $keepVcs = false)
     {
         $config = Factory::createConfig();
 
@@ -177,7 +179,8 @@ EOT
 
         $dm = $this->createDownloadManager($io, $config);
         $dm->setPreferSource($preferSource)
-            ->setPreferDist($preferDist);
+            ->setPreferDist($preferDist)
+            ->setOutputProgress(!$noProgress);
 
         $projectInstaller = new ProjectInstaller($directory, $dm);
         $im = $this->createInstallationManager();
diff --git a/src/Composer/Command/InstallCommand.php b/src/Composer/Command/InstallCommand.php
index d31dbdce7..0d8ffce2d 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Command/InstallCommand.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Command/InstallCommand.php
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ class InstallCommand extends Command
                 new InputOption('dev', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Enables installation of dev-require packages.'),
                 new InputOption('no-custom-installers', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Disables all custom installers.'),
                 new InputOption('no-scripts', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Skips the execution of all scripts defined in composer.json file.'),
+                new InputOption('no-progress', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Do not output download progress.'),
                 new InputOption('verbose', 'v', InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Shows more details including new commits pulled in when updating packages.'),
                 new InputOption('optimize-autoloader', 'o', InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Optimize autoloader during autoloader dump')
             ))
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ EOT
     protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
     {
         $composer = $this->getComposer();
+        $composer->getDownloadManager()->setOutputProgress(!$input->getOption('no-progress'));
         $io = $this->getIO();
         $install = Installer::create($io, $composer);
 
diff --git a/src/Composer/Command/RequireCommand.php b/src/Composer/Command/RequireCommand.php
index b67d087d0..f75ec44db 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Command/RequireCommand.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Command/RequireCommand.php
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ class RequireCommand extends InitCommand
                 new InputOption('dev', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Add requirement to require-dev.'),
                 new InputOption('prefer-source', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Forces installation from package sources when possible, including VCS information.'),
                 new InputOption('prefer-dist', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Forces installation from package dist even for dev versions.'),
+                new InputOption('no-progress', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Do not output download progress.'),
                 new InputOption('no-update', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Disables the automatic update of the dependencies.'),
             ))
             ->setHelp(<<<EOT
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ EOT
 
         // Update packages
         $composer = $this->getComposer();
+        $composer->getDownloadManager()->setOutputProgress(!$input->getOption('no-progress'));
         $io = $this->getIO();
         $install = Installer::create($io, $composer);
 
diff --git a/src/Composer/Command/UpdateCommand.php b/src/Composer/Command/UpdateCommand.php
index 1cbc654b9..a6aa3a476 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Command/UpdateCommand.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Command/UpdateCommand.php
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ class UpdateCommand extends Command
                 new InputOption('dev', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Enables installation of dev-require packages.'),
                 new InputOption('no-custom-installers', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Disables all custom installers.'),
                 new InputOption('no-scripts', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Skips the execution of all scripts defined in composer.json file.'),
+                new InputOption('no-progress', null, InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Do not output download progress.'),
                 new InputOption('verbose', 'v', InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Shows more details including new commits pulled in when updating packages.'),
                 new InputOption('optimize-autoloader', 'o', InputOption::VALUE_NONE, 'Optimize autoloader during autoloader dump')
             ))
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ EOT
     protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
     {
         $composer = $this->getComposer();
+        $composer->getDownloadManager()->setOutputProgress(!$input->getOption('no-progress'));
         $io = $this->getIO();
         $install = Installer::create($io, $composer);
 
diff --git a/src/Composer/Downloader/DownloadManager.php b/src/Composer/Downloader/DownloadManager.php
index 42f822c00..e52212f76 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Downloader/DownloadManager.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Downloader/DownloadManager.php
@@ -64,6 +64,22 @@ class DownloadManager
         return $this;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Sets whether to output download progress information for all registered
+     * downloaders
+     *
+     * @param  bool            $outputProgress
+     * @return DownloadManager
+     */
+    public function setOutputProgress($outputProgress)
+    {
+        foreach ($this->downloaders as $downloader) {
+            $downloader->setOutputProgress($outputProgress);
+        }
+
+        return $this;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Sets installer downloader for a specific installation type.
      *
diff --git a/src/Composer/Downloader/DownloaderInterface.php b/src/Composer/Downloader/DownloaderInterface.php
index 61dc35302..713bf36dc 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Downloader/DownloaderInterface.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Downloader/DownloaderInterface.php
@@ -53,4 +53,12 @@ interface DownloaderInterface
      * @param string           $path    download path
      */
     public function remove(PackageInterface $package, $path);
+
+    /**
+     * Sets whether to output download progress information or not
+     *
+     * @param  bool                $outputProgress
+     * @return DownloaderInterface
+     */
+    public function setOutputProgress($outputProgress);
 }
diff --git a/src/Composer/Downloader/FileDownloader.php b/src/Composer/Downloader/FileDownloader.php
index 752659040..437873492 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Downloader/FileDownloader.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Downloader/FileDownloader.php
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ class FileDownloader implements DownloaderInterface
     protected $rfs;
     protected $filesystem;
     protected $cache;
+    protected $outputProgress = true;
 
     /**
      * Constructor.
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ class FileDownloader implements DownloaderInterface
         try {
             try {
                 if (!$this->cache || !$this->cache->copyTo($this->getCacheKey($package), $fileName)) {
-                    $this->rfs->copy($hostname, $processedUrl, $fileName);
+                    $this->rfs->copy($hostname, $processedUrl, $fileName, $this->outputProgress);
                     if ($this->cache) {
                         $this->cache->copyFrom($this->getCacheKey($package), $fileName);
                     }
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ class FileDownloader implements DownloaderInterface
                     ) {
                         throw $e;
                     }
-                    $this->rfs->copy($hostname, $processedUrl, $fileName);
+                    $this->rfs->copy($hostname, $processedUrl, $fileName, $this->outputProgress);
                 } else {
                     throw $e;
                 }
@@ -131,6 +132,16 @@ class FileDownloader implements DownloaderInterface
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * {@inheritDoc}
+     */
+    public function setOutputProgress($outputProgress)
+    {
+        $this->outputProgress = $outputProgress;
+
+        return $this;
+    }
+
     protected function clearCache(PackageInterface $package, $path)
     {
         if ($this->cache) {
diff --git a/src/Composer/Downloader/VcsDownloader.php b/src/Composer/Downloader/VcsDownloader.php
index ea40f0a81..55a189b7b 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Downloader/VcsDownloader.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Downloader/VcsDownloader.php
@@ -132,6 +132,15 @@ abstract class VcsDownloader implements DownloaderInterface
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Download progress information is not available for all VCS downloaders.
+     * {@inheritDoc}
+     */
+    public function setOutputProgress($outputProgress)
+    {
+        return $this;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Prompt the user to check if changes should be stashed/removed or the operation aborted
      *