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Hi there, i just upgraded my laravel 9 project to 10. And tried to install laravel mollie cashier v2.0, by running composer require mollie/laravel-cashier-mollie "^2.0" It gives this error Problem 1 - Root composer.json requires mollie/laravel-cashier-mollie 2.0 -> satisfiable by mollie/laravel-cashier-mollie[v2.0.0]. - mollie/laravel-cashier-mollie v2.0.0 requires illuminate/database ^7.0|^8.0 -> found illuminate/database[v7.0.0, ..., 7.x-dev, v8.0.0, ..., 8.x-dev] but these were not loaded, likely because it conflicts with another require. After that I tried to install illuminate/database, but that also gives errors, no matter which version I try out of the preffered ones. Any idea how to resolve this?
@janmoes The latest version of Mollie Cashier 2.x is compatible with Laravel 10.x (https://github.com/mollie/laravel-cashier-mollie/blob/53d20bd8c74c15fb0aba2bbf7b5555a346ae3232/composer.json#L37) so not sure why Composer is saying it requires ^7.0 or ^8.0.
You don’t need to manually install illuminate/database because that’s a Laravel framework package and automatically included with the framework.
@martinbean I found out that ^ in windows is an escape character. I manually added the mollie package into my composer.json and ran composer update and that worked! I did not know about ^ being an escape character before and was already wondering why composer complained kinda about that package illuminate/database. But I'm glad it worked out.
@janmoes Cool, glad you found the issue. I’m not a Windows users, so would never have thought of that as being the issue.
@martinbean I am a windows user but never came towards this issue before, maybe because of mostly programming stuff myself instead of using packages. Glad that someone told me that on the laravel discord server. I might've never found out myself
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