Composer hanging while updating dependencies

Question

I tried updating a Laravel project I\'m working on today using composer update

But it hung on Updating dependencies (including require-dev)

Answer 1

In my case, it was simply taking a very long time on my 8GB ram Mac. To check the progress and verify that it is going through the dependencies, run composer in verbose mode. This was an approach I missed in the question so worth re-stating here.

composer update -vvv

Answer 2

Working for me. First Run command for auto load, then clear cache and run update.

composer dump-autoload
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan view:clear
composer update

Answer 3

Restart your system.

I faced the same problem today. Going by advice, turned off xdebug, but did not help. Verified all files were present. Restarted my system, and it worked.

Answer 4

I found this in another article, I found that doing the following below worked. It seemed to be a cache/download issue into the composer packages cache.

composer update -vvv

Then doing the following: Add or edit your composer file to have these settings.

"repositories": [
    {
         "type": "composer", 
         "url": "https://packagist.org"
    },
    { "packagist": false }
]

Answer 5

Check if you are running the minimum required php version

Compare with the specified required php version in the composer.json file

Open terminal run

php -v

Cross check in composer.json file see example below

"require": { "php": "^7.1.3", }

Answer 6

I solved it by editing php.ini file in order to set de cacert required for ssl verification:

1. Download the file http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem

2. Edit php.ini to set the pat:

   [openssl]
   ; The location of a Certificate Authority (CA) file on the local filesystem
   ; to use when verifying the identity of SSL/TLS peers. Most users should
   ; not specify a value for this directive as PHP will attempt to use the
   ; OS-managed cert stores in its absence. If specified, this value may still
   ; be overridden on a per-stream basis via the "cafile" SSL stream context
   ; option.
   openssl.cafile=C:\web\certs\cacert.pem
   curl.cainfo=C:\web\certs\cacert.pem
   

3. Try again