Composer loading from cache

Question

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 the

Answer 1

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

It stores ZIP files. The below image has 2 Zip files because I have downloaded 2 versions of monolog (1.0.1 and 1.0.2)

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

Answer 2

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/

Answer 3

run the following command

rm -rf ~/.composer/cache*

if Permission denied add sudo