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DomPDF error

Hi, I have Laravel 8 but when I try to install dompfg using composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf getting error

Problem 1
    - Root composer.json requires barryvdh/laravel-dompdf ^2.0 -> satisfiable by barryvdh/laravel-dompdf[v2.0.0-beta1, ..., 2.0.x-dev].
    - barryvdh/laravel-dompdf[v2.0.0-beta1, ..., 2.0.x-dev] require dompdf/dompdf ^2 -> found dompdf/dompdf[v2.0.0] but the package is fixed to v1.2.2 (lock file version) by a partial update and that version does not match. Make sure you list it as an argument for the update command

Composer.json

"require": {
        "php": "^7.3|^8.0",
        "barryvdh/laravel-dompdf": "^0.9.0",
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Sinnbeck
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Why do you have that old version in composer.json? And that does not look like the full composer.json :)

Try

composer remove barryvdh/laravel-dompdf
composer remove dompdf/dompdf
composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

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