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vincent15000's avatar

Invite to upgrade the Laravel installer while creating a new Laravel application

Hello,

When I create a new Laravel application, I have this invite.

 WARN  A new version of the Laravel installer is available. You have version 5.25.3 installed, the latest version is 5.28.1.

 ┌ Would you like to update now? ───────────────────────────────┐
 │ ● Yes / ○ No                                                 │

I choose Yes, but I get the same invite continuously.

So the upgrade is never done.

Why ?

Thanks for your help.

V

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vincent15000's avatar

And here is what I get when I upgrade manually the Laravel installer.

vincent@columbo:~/Documents/PRO/DEV$ composer global update laravel/installer
Changed current directory to /home/vincent/.config/composer
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Nothing to modify in lock file
Writing lock file
Installing dependencies from lock file (including require-dev)
Nothing to install, update or remove
Package composer-unused/composer-unused-plugin is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.
Generating autoload files
32 packages you are using are looking for funding.
Use the `composer fund` command to find out more!
No security vulnerability advisories found.

I specify that I have upgrade composer to the last version.

shanewatson08's avatar

This usually happens because the globally installed Laravel installer version is outdated.

You can upgrade it with:

composer global update laravel/installer

Or reinstall it completely:

composer global remove laravel/installer composer global require laravel/installer

After updating, verify the version:

laravel --version

Also make sure your Composer global bin directory is added to your system PATH.

For newer Laravel versions, you can alternatively create projects directly using Composer:

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

That method always pulls the latest Laravel release and avoids installer version mismatch issues.

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vincent15000's avatar

I don't need that you copy / paste an AI response, I already asked some AIs for this problem ;).

jlrdw's avatar

Is this in a docker container?

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Glukinho's avatar

Did you try to uninstall / install laravel installer instead of updating?

DigitalArtisan's avatar

Why use the laravel/installer?

I just use composer:

composer create-project laravel/laravel ProjectName.
Glukinho's avatar

Installer does some additional tuning for new app, such as disabling Pail on Windows installation. Since it's recommended and documented way to install Laravel it should work.

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