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Update Laravel project from php 7.0.4 to 8.2

Im trying to update an inherited laravel project to the newest version and am getting the following exception:

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

Problem 1 - illuminate/contracts[v5.6.0, ..., v5.8.36] require php ^7.1.3 -> your php version (8.2.4) does not satisfy that requirement. - Root composer.json requires fideloper/proxy 3.3.0 -> satisfiable by fideloper/proxy[3.3.0]. - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.13.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.13.1 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.13.2 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.13.3 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.13.5 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.14.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.14.1 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.15.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.16.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.16.1 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.17.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.17.1 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.18.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.19.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.20.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.21.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.21.1 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.22.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.23.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.23.1 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.24.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.25.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.25.1 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.25.2 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.26.0 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.26.1 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.26.2 (conflict analysis result) - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework v10.12.0 (conflict analysis result) - fideloper/proxy 3.3.0 requires illuminate/contracts ~5.0 -> satisfiable by illuminate/contracts[v5.0.0, ..., v5.8.36]. - Only one of these can be installed: illuminate/contracts[v5.0.0, ..., v5.8.36, v6.0.0, ..., v6.20.44, v10.0.0, ..., v10.26.2], laravel/framework[v10.11.0, ..., v10.26.2]. laravel/framework replaces illuminate/contracts and thus cannot coexist with it. - Root composer.json requires laravel/framework ^v10.11.0 -> satisfiable by laravel/framework[v10.11.0, ..., v10.26.2].

my composer.json:

{ "name": "laravel/laravel", "description": "The Laravel Framework.", "keywords": ["framework", "laravel"], "license": "MIT", "type": "project", "require": { "php": "^8.0", "barryvdh/laravel-cors": "^0.11.2", "fideloper/proxy": "3.3.0", "laravel/framework": "^v10.11.0", "laravel/tinker": "~1.0" }, "require-dev": { "filp/whoops": "~2.0", "fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4", "mockery/mockery": "0.9.*", "phpunit/phpunit": "~10.0" }, "autoload": { "classmap": [ "database/seeds", "database/factories" ], "psr-4": { "ThekRe\": "app/" } }, "autoload-dev": { "psr-4": { "Tests\": "tests/" } }, "extra": { "laravel": { "dont-discover": [ ] } }, "scripts": { "post-root-package-install": [ "@php -r "file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');"" ], "post-create-project-cmd": [ "@php artisan key:generate" ], "post-autoload-dump": [ "Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump", "@php artisan package:discover" ] }, "config": { "preferred-install": "dist", "sort-packages": true, "optimize-autoloader": true, "allow-plugins": { "kylekatarnls/update-helper": true } } }

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Snapey's avatar

You need to go step by step through the upgrade path from your current version to version 10, and between laravel 7 and 8 you can change from php7 to php8

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