Laravel 5 package installation - laravel

Question

I want to install a laravel package but don't have any idea how to do it.
It is the Admin Architect package that I want to install.
http://docs.adminarchitect.com/Getting_Started
This is the getting started page, if you scroll down to Zip archive (Public way) you will see the installation.
They say that you have to extract it in the package directory. But I do not have a package directory in my laravel 5.1 project.
Does someone know if you have to make one and put all the files that I have in there?

Answer 1

You need to start at the Via Zip archive (Public way) section.
The way to do this is completely up to you. The best way is probably to create a packages folder in your main Laravel directory along with app, bootstrap, database directories etc...
Unzip the contents of the zip package and then add the required item to your repositories in your composer.json
"repositories": [
...
{
"type": "git",
"url": "./packages/administrator"
}
...
]
This will add the repository which contains the package terranet/administrator as long as the url is correct. You might have to modify it to get it to work correctly so that when you run composer require terranet/administrator, it will be able to actually find terranet/administrator from the repository.
From there, simply follow the rest of the instructions (adding the service provider, etc...).
The reason other answers are not working is because the package terranet/administrator is not available publicly and you need to add the repository to your composer.json file for that to become availble. You can see all packages available publicly by going to packagist.org where you will see searching for this package yields some results but not the one you are looking for.

Answer 2

I don't know if you missed the instruction on the documentation:
Open your terminal:
cd yourproject
then run:
composer require terranet/administrator
Add service provider in config/app.php file.
'providers' => [
...
Terranet\Administrator\ServiceProvider::class
]
Run this command to publish assets:
php artisan vendor:publish
OR
php artisan vendor:publish --provider=Terranet\\Administrator\\ServiceProvider to publish only administrator's files.
Optionally to create new administrator user run:
php artisan administrator:create
Finally open config/administrator.php and make settings

Answer 3

If you have composer installed you could run the following from your program directory:
composer require terranet/administrator
After the package installed, add a new service provider to the providers array in config/app.php file.
'providers' => [
...
Terranet\Administrator\ServiceProvider::class
]
Then, publish package's assets by running:
php artisan vendor:publish
OR
php artisan vendor:publish --provider=Terranet\\Administrator\\ServiceProvider
to publish only administrator's files.
Optionally you can run
php artisan administrator:create
to create new administrator user ->All this taken from the link you provided.
Update
The problem with minimum stability can be fixed using this link for reference:
Tell composer you want to use stable whenever possible:
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"prefer-stable" : true
This basically means it will always use stable UNLESS there is no way to install a stable dependency, and therefore use dev.