How to update Laravel Installer "laravel/installer" to latest version?

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I tried to update my laravel/installer using the command:

composer global update laravel/installer

But it only upgraded its minor version (assuming that it uses Semantic Versioning).

Package operations: 0 installs, 1 update, 0 removals
  - Updating laravel/installer (v2.1.0 => v2.3.0): Downloading (100%)

Then I execute the update command again:

composer global update laravel/installer

But outputs:

Nothing to install or update

I now uses PHP 7.4.4 (cli) obtained using php -v so I assume that it should be able to upgrade to latest which is Laravel Installer 3.0.1.

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2 Answers

If running composer global update laravel/installer is not enough to upgrade the the desired version, there might be package dependencies that restricts the upgrade to the latest.

I do not know if there is a composer option to do that on global scope but the following commands works for me:

# uninstall the package
composer global remove laravel/installer

# reinstall
composer global require laravel/installer

The 1st process outputs the outdated packages dependencies that are removed with the laravel/installer package.

Then the 2nd process installs the latest laravel/installer with the updates dependencies.

Laravel documentation does not include how to update the installer package yet.

Update: Adding Documentation link on how to update a composer package.

composer require specific version documentation.

php composer.phar require "vendor/package:2.*" vendor/package2:dev-master

As we can see, specific version could be supplied after the colon.

https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#require

user_15003920

your php version is restricting it. it's probably because you have multiple PHP versions installed. update your environment variable of PHP. then remove The Laravel installer and install it again.

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