Composer loading from cache

php composer-php

i ran in a problem using composer for installing/uninstalling some dependencies in laravel which coming back after deleting them from composer.json and deleting their vendor folder, i initially used dflydev's markdown package but now i wanted to change it to michelf's php-markdown, but i cant uninstall the old one since it comes back loaded from cache, which i checked at AppData\Roaming\Composer and is empty, any clue on to why this is happening?

  - Installing dflydev/markdown (dev-master dee1f7a)
    Loading from cache

Have you tried anything to resolve this problem? If yes, please share your attempts

I tried adding --no-cache option to my composer command and it downloaded the dependencies without loading them from cache....

Muhammad Dyas Yaskur

You can use the following command to clear the cache irrespective of the OS you are on:

php composer.phar clear-cache

or if composer is installed globally

composer clear-cache

Unless I deleted my composer.lock file, the clear-cache commands had no effect.

Remember that it must be executed with root(super user).

Please add some further explanation to your answer. How does clearing the cache of downloaded files help to install or not install any pacakge?

Syed Abidur Rahman

I think, you can run your composer commands with --no-cache option flag like

composer install --no-cache

composer require <package-name> --no-cache

composer update [<package-name>] --no-cache

monsur.hoq

If you want to clear all packages cache, please try following:

$ composer clearcache

Or to just clear one or a few packages:

$ composer clearcache packagename1 packagename2 ...

You can also use clear-cache which is an alias for clearcache.

Source : https://blog.liplex.de/clear-composer-cache/

It's not possible anymore to clear cache for specific packages. There is a comment in the post you've referenced and the post itself was updated.

Please add some further explanation to your answer. How does clearing the cache of downloaded files help to install or not install any pacakge?

Raunak Gupta

composer caches packages under vendor/packagename convention. So you shouldn't run into any issue, just because the packagename is used in another vendor's package.

the cache locations are:

Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Composer\files\vendor\packagename

Linux: ~/.composer/cache/files/vendor/packagename

Mac OS: ~/.composer/cache/files/packagename

under windows its %LOCALAPPDATA%\Roaming\Composer and its as i said empty, and the package in question isn't used in any dependency as a i just installed it recently.

Please add some further explanation to your answer. How does clearing the cache of downloaded files help to install or not install any pacakge?

UPDATE 2022: for OSX: ~/Library/Caches/composer/

This will work on any platform and give you the exact location: composer config cache-dir

Darvanen

Don't edit your composer.json file manually to remove a package - it will remain in composer.lock.

Use composer remove to delete the old package then composer require to install the replacement.

This looks like the first attempt to really solve the problem - thanks for your answer!

Yeah... We should probably change the question title, it's a bit misleading

This doesn't work if the package has been installed via dependency. There are reasons why you might need to manually edit composer.json ie if you want to update a reference to use a local path for a package.

> This doesn't work if the package has been installed via dependency. Correct. But the OP states directly that they are deleting the items from composer.json and they are magically returning > There are reasons why you might need to manually edit composer.json Absolutely. Again, not applicable in this context, where the OP is trying to remove a whole package. I could have said "run composer update after deleting the value" but that comes with so much more required knowledge.

Mostafa

In some cases (for example OpenSuse 42.1) all user cache are puts in:

~/.cache/

For the composer, the same as other applications, the cache path is:

~/.cache/composer/

So, just remove this folder as follow:

rm -fR ~/.cache/composer

Please add some further explanation to your answer. How does clearing the cache of downloaded files help to install or not install any pacakge?

Sir Mbuki

run the following command

rm -rf ~/.composer/cache*

if Permission denied add sudo

If some one is having permissions issues in their own home directory, "add sudo" to a rm -rf command that includes a wildcard is not a good idea.

Please add some further explanation to your answer. How does clearing the cache of downloaded files help to install or not install any pacakge?

Linh

On Window, I see the composer cache file located in
C:\Users\{your_user}\AppData\Local\Composer\files

https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wp6Lf.png

https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZaSqM.png

To remove the cache, simply delete the Zip file or folder.

This will work on any platform and give you the exact location: composer config cache-dir

samnau

So the only thing that worked for me on my Macbook was removing the package from my composer.json, deleting my composer.lock, running composer update, then adding the package back to composer.json, deleting my composer.lock(again), and running composer update (again). I had a local package in my instance of Laravel Nova that I changed to all lowercase from CamelCase and no matter what I did, it kept adding the package with the old CamelCase name. Didn't matter if I cleared caches or anything.

Composer loading from cache

Follow WeChat

Want to stay one step ahead of the latest teleworks?

相似问题

Platform

Support

Contact US