Failed to install Laravel PHP Framework using “composer install” on Ubuntu Server 14.04

Question

I install Laravel via Download as indicated on http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/

Composer was already installed. But when I ran composer install to install all of the framework's dependencies, I got the following messages and errors:

Loading composer repositories with package information

The " https://packagist.org/packages.json " file could not be downloaded: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known https://packagist.org could not be fully loaded, package information was loaded from the local cache and may be out of date

Installing dependencies (including require-dev)

[Composer\\Downloader\\TransportException] The " https://packagist.org/p/provider-2013 $b34cfb140404adf89817de230d9257048baa3d027e56a98d9ae5d089f7f92596.json" file could not be downloaded: php_netw ork_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known

install [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--dry-run] [--dev] [--no-dev] [--no-plugins] [--no-custom-installers] [--no-autoloader] [--no-scripts] [--no-progress] [-v|vv|vvv|--verbose] [-o|--optimize-autoloader] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [packages1] ... [packagesN]

Any thoughts about this? Thank you.

UPDATE: It works well on Laravel 5.0. I'm working on the 4.2. I don't know if it's the composer.phar issue or the server issue? Its just fine on Windows 8.1 with XAMPP 5.6.3 (PHP: 5.6.3) installed.

Answer 1

Follow these steps 1.Download the zip file from here

2.Extract the contents of zip file into a directory

3.Use cd to go into ur directory where u extracted the files

4. From terminal run composer update

5. After composer finishes updating the dependency run composer dump-autoload

Hope this helps

Answer 2

Try running this:

composer update

in your laravel folder. Then it will download all the packages define in the composer.json file. See, if that helps.

Answer 3

Don't forget the basics. First check your internet connection. The downloads fail when your connectivity breaks. https://packagist.org/packages.json is an online resource, so the first reason why this can happen is bad or unstable internet connection. You might want to try with a different source of internet.