Upgrading to Laravel 6.0 on OSX failed due to PHP HHVM version

Additional info: regrub-mcpro:kerndoel.nl rutgerburger$ php -v PHP 7.2.20 (cli) (built: Jul 16 2019 16:28:40) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies regrub-mcpro:kerndoel.nl rutgerburger$ composer u Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies (including require-dev) Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

Problem 1 - This package requires php ^7.2 but your HHVM version does not satisfy that requirement. Problem 2 - laravel/framework v6.0.1 requires php ^7.2 -> your PHP version (7.1.23) does not satisfy that requirement. - laravel/framework v6.0.0 requires php ^7.2 -> your PHP version (7.1.23) does not satisfy that requirement. - laravel/framework 6.x-dev requires php ^7.2 -> your PHP version (7.1.23) does not satisfy that requirement. - laravel/framework 6.0.x-dev requires php ^7.2 -> your PHP version (7.1.23) does not satisfy that requirement. - Installation request for laravel/framework ^6.0 -> satisfiable by laravel/framework[6.0.x-dev, 6.x-dev, v6.0.0, v6.0.1].

Then remove HHVM and run php-fpm instead.

@tray2 Thanks for the tip. I did it and it has no result. Still the HHVM version keeps coming up when I use composer u even when HHVM is uninstalled and removed. I wonder why composer does this? HHVM is irrelevant for PHP.

I installed Homestead and this provided me with all the requirements, but this a complicated solution for, in my eyes, a flaw in the composer check.