1. Introduction
2. Currently installed Composer version?
- Open a terminal window by clicking the Terminal button in the Laragon Button Menu.
- If necessary, go to the folder
\LARAGON\bin\composer\. - Then enter composer -V to get the exact composer version installed.
3. Laragon - Updating Composer
- Open a terminal window by clicking the Terminal button in the Laragon Button Menu.
- If necessary, go to the folder
\LARAGON\bin\composer\. - Enter
composer self-updateto update composer to its latest stable version.
- If your application uses packages that require composer version 1, then you can update composer to the latest stable version 1.x.x by using the command
composer self-update --1. - After forcing the composer self-update routine into a specific branch, the routine will stay in that branch the next times you’ll use composer self-update.
- To force composer to update to another branch, you’ll have to specify it during update, for instance
composer self-update --2. - To force composer to update to the latest stable version in the latest branch, use
composer self-update --stable.
You can always undo an up- or downgrade by using composer self-update --rollback.
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