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Well, ~4.* is not a valid version range - it should be ~4 or ~4.0
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Hello, I try to run laravel 7 under php 7.4 (I worked under php 7.3 before) and I got error:
$ composer install
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
In ComposerRepository.php line 637:
Could not load package mews/purifier in http://packagist.org: [UnexpectedValueException] Could not parse version constraint ~4.*: Invalid version string "~4.*"
In VersionParser.php line 485:
Could not parse version constraint ~4.*: Invalid version string "~4.*"
In composer.json:
{
"name": "laravel/laravel",
"type": "project",
"description": "The Laravel Framework.",
"keywords": [
"framework",
"laravel"
],
"license": "MIT",
"require": {
"php": "^7.2.5",
"cartalyst/sentinel": "^4.0",
"cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable": "^7.0",
"fideloper/proxy": "^4.2",
"fruitcake/laravel-cors": "^1.0",
"guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.3",
"illuminate/database": "^7.27",
"illuminate/events": "^7.27",
"intervention/image": "dev-master",
"laravel/framework": "^7.0",
"laravel/tinker": "^2.0",
"livewire/livewire": "^1.3",
"mews/purifier": "^3.2",
"prettus/l5-repository": "^2.6",
"realrashid/sweet-alert": "^3.1",
"spatie/laravel-image-optimizer": "^1.6",
"spatie/laravel-medialibrary": "^7.19",
"symfony/http-foundation": "^5.1",
"wboyz/laravel-enum": "^0.2.1"
},
"require-dev": {
"facade/ignition": "^2.0",
"fzaninotto/faker": "^1.9.1",
"mockery/mockery": "^1.0",
"nunomaduro/collision": "^4.1"
},
"config": {
"optimize-autoloader": true,
"preferred-install": "dist",
"sort-packages": true
},
"extra": {
"laravel": {
"dont-discover": []
}
},
"autoload": {
"files": [
"app/library/helper.php"
],
"psr-4": {
"App\": "app/",
"Modules\": "Modules/"
},
"classmap": [
"database/seeds",
"database/factories"
]
},
"autoload-dev": {
"psr-4": {
"Tests\": "tests/"
}
},
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"prefer-stable": true,
"scripts": {
"post-autoload-dump": [
"Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump",
"@php artisan package:discover --ansi"
],
"post-root-package-install": [
"@php -r \"file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
],
"post-create-project-cmd": [
"@php artisan key:generate --ansi"
]
}
}
Also I removed composer.lock and run again composer update with same results
Is syntax of this file wrong? What have I to change in it?
Thanks!
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