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I am making a switch from windows to mac, so I installed composer globally and pulled laravel project from github. When I run composer install inside the the laravel project I keep getting a run time exception error
[RuntimeException] /Users/developer/mike/code/laravel/vendor does not exist and could not be created.
Please how do I resolve this so that I can install the project dependencies?
As the error states, it's a permission issue.
Make sure your project has the correct permissions to create the vendor folder.
You might need to use sudo chown -R mike /Users/developer/mike/code/ && chmod -R 777 /Users/developer/mike/code/vendor
@ahmadmayahi you were right it was a permission issue. However because it was a work laptop and I didn't have access to the root user, I simply solved the issue by running sudo composer install.
Sorry my response is coming late, but I hope this is helpful to others.
I had a similar issue on my Windows machine running WSL, Docker with Sail.
I did a ls -la on my app directory on wsl and saw that the vendor folder belonged to root and not to my user.
So ran a chown myName:myName -R ./vendor
And that solved it for me
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