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Composer Install Error on server

Im running composer install after i clone my git on the server. The problem is

Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - Installation request for phpoffice/phpspreadsheet 1.13.0 -> satisfiable by phpoffice/phpspreadsheet[1.13.0].
    - phpoffice/phpspreadsheet 1.13.0 requires ext-zip * -> the requested PHP extension zip is missing from your system.
  Problem 2
    - Installation request for pusher/pusher-php-server v4.1.1 -> satisfiable by pusher/pusher-php-server[v4.1.1].
    - pusher/pusher-php-server v4.1.1 requires ext-curl * -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.
  Problem 3
    - Installation request for mockery/mockery 1.4.0 -> satisfiable by mockery/mockery[1.4.0].
    - mockery/mockery 1.4.0 requires php ^7.3.0 -> your PHP version (7.2.24) does not satisfy that requirement.
  Problem 4
    - phpoffice/phpspreadsheet 1.13.0 requires ext-zip * -> the requested PHP extension zip is missing from your system.
    - maatwebsite/excel 3.1.19 requires phpoffice/phpspreadsheet ^1.10 -> satisfiable by phpoffice/phpspreadsheet[1.13.0].
    - Installation request for maatwebsite/excel 3.1.19 -> satisfiable by maatwebsite/excel[3.1.19].

  To enable extensions, verify that they are enabled in your .ini files:
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/php.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/10-mysqlnd.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/10-opcache.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/10-pdo.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/15-xml.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-calendar.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-ctype.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-dom.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-exif.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-fileinfo.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-ftp.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-gd.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-gettext.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-iconv.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-intl.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-json.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-mbstring.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-mysqli.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-pdo_mysql.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-phar.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-posix.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-readline.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-shmop.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-simplexml.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sockets.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sysvmsg.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sysvsem.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sysvshm.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-tokenizer.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-wddx.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-xmlreader.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-xmlwriter.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-xsl.ini
  You can also run `php --ini` inside terminal to see which files are used by PHP in CLI mode.

Any idea how to fix this? I'm kinda new to ubuntu.

Thanks

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guybrush_threepwood's avatar

Try:

sudo apt-get install php7.2-zip

And:

sudo apt-get install php7.2-curl

Then check php.ini to see if they are not commented out.

Finally you can check the enabled extensions by running:

php -r "print_r(get_loaded_extensions());"
_NinjaDev's avatar

Okay found the answers. It seems i need to install the packages.

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