What is the correct way to remove a package from Laravel using PHP Composer?
So far I've tried:
Remove declaration from file composer.json (in the "require" section)
Remove any class aliases from file app.php
Remove any references to the package from my code :-)
Run composer update
Run composer dump-autoload
None of these options are working! What am I missing?
Composer 1.x and 2.x
Running the following command will remove the package from vendor (or wherever you install packages), composer.json and composer.lock. Change vendor/package appropriately.
composer remove vendor/package
Obviously you'll need to remove references to that package within your app.
I'm currently running the following version of Composer:
Composer version 1.0-dev (7b13507dd4d3b93578af7d83fbf8be0ca686f4b5) 2014-12-11 21:52:29
Documentation
https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#remove
Updates
26/10/2020 - Updated answer to assert command works for v1.x and v2.x of Composer
I got it working... The steps to remove a package from Laravel are:
Remove the declaration from file composer.json (in the "require" section)
**Remove Service Provider from file config/app.php (reference in the "providers" array)
Remove any class aliases from file config/app.php
Remove any references to the package from your code :-)
Run composer update vendor/package-name. This will remove the package folder from the vendor folder and will rebuild the Composer autoloading map.
Manually delete the published files (read the comment by zwacky)
It will remove the package folder from the Vendor folder.
Normally composer remove used like this is enough:
composer remove vendor/package
But if a Composer package is removed and the "config" cache is not cleaned you cannot clean it. When you try like so
php artisan config:clear
you can get an error In ProviderRepository.php line 208:
Class 'Laracasts\Flash\FlashServiceProvider' not found
This is a dead end, unless you go deleting files:
rm bootstrap/cache/config.php
And this is Laravel 5.6 I'm talking about, not some kind of very old stuff.
It happens usually on automated deployment, when you copy files of a new release on top of old cache. Even if you cleared the cache before copying. You end up with an old cache and a new composer.json file.
You can remove any package just by typing the following command in the terminal, and just remove the providers and alias you provided at the time of installing the package, if any and update the composer,
composer remove vendor/your_package_name
composer update
Before removing a package from a composer.json declaration, please remove the cache:
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:clear
If you forget to remove the cache and you get a "class not found error" then please reinstall the package, clear the cache and remove again.
You can do any one of the below two methods:
Running the below command (most recommended way to remove your package without updating your other packages)
$ composer remove vendor/package
Go to your composer.json file and then run command like below it will remove your package (but it will also update your other packages)
$ composer update
If you are still getting the error after you are done with all the steps in the previous answers, go to your projects, Bootstrap → Cache → config.php. Remove the provider and aliases entries from the cached array manually.
Use:
composer remove vendor/package
This is an example:
Install or add a package
composer require firebear/importexportfree
Uninstall / remove
composer remove firebear/importexportfree
Finally after removing:
php -f bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy –f
php bin/magento indexer:reindex
php -f bin/magento cache:clean
Running
Composer remove package/name
Php artisan optimize
e.g "Composer remove mckenziearts/laravel-notify" works for me while using Laravel 8.
To add the packages, the command is to be like:
composer require spatie/laravel-permission
To remove the packages, the command is to be like:
composer remove spatie/laravel-permission
In case the given answers still don't help you remove that, try this:
Manually delete the line in require from composer.json
Run composer update
If this doesn't work "composer remove package/name", you can still remove it manually.
Note : package/name is like spatie etc.
Go to composer.json and find the package name
Delete package name from composer.json
Find the vendor file in your Laravel project.
Delete the package file which is under vendor
run composer install on your terminal
Note : Package File mean is that package that you are looking for. For example, you want to remove Spatie. Then you need to find that with similar name in vendor file and you need to delete it manually.
Your package was removed successfully.
We have come with a great solution. This solution is practically done in Laravel 6. If you want to remove any package from your Laravel Project then you can easily remove the package by following below steps:
Step 1: You must know the package name which you want to remove. If you don't know the complete package name then you can open your project folder and go to the composer.json file and check the name in the require array:
"require": {
"php": "^7.2",
"fideloper/proxy": "^4.0",
"laravel/framework": "^6.2",
"laravel/passport": "^8.3",
"laravel/tinker": "^2.0"
},
Suppose, here I am going to remove the "fideloper/proxy" package.
Step 2: Open a command prompt with your project root folder directory
Step 3: First of all, clear all cache by the following commands. Run the commands one by one.
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:clear
Step 4: Now write the following command to remove the package. Here you need to change your package name instead of my example package.
composer remove fideloper/proxy
Now, wait for a few seconds while your package is removed.
On Laravel 8.*, the following steps work for me:
Run command composer remove package-name on the terminal
Remove Provider and aliases from file Config/app.php
Remove the related file from the Config folder.
Remove it from your code where you used it.
Remove the package folder from the vendor folder (manual delete)
Remove it from file composer.json and 'composer.lock' files (use Ctrl + F5 to search)
Remove it from file config/app.php and file bootstrap/cache/config.php files
Run these commands:
composer remove **your-package-name**
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:clear
There are quite a few steps here:
Go to file composer.json and look for the package and how it is written over there.
for example
{ "require": {
"twig/twig": "^3.0" } }
I wish to remove twig 3.0
Now open cmd and run composer remove vendor/your_package_name as composer remove twig/twig will remove the package.
As a final step, run composer update. This will surely give you a massage of nothing to install or update, but this is important in case your packages have inter-dependencies.
You have two solution.
First
Use remove of composer.
composer remove *your_package_name*
Second
Delete the line in require from composer.json and then run update
composer update
After removed, recommend to run below two command.
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:clear
Related
I am working on a Laravel application which was developed by a previous developer and they haven't used Laravel Mix but any custom js/css were manually written and included.
There are some packages in composer.json and packages.json which are unused in the application.
Whats the best way/approach to remove these unused packages.
FYI, I have used depcheck npm package to find what npm packages are not being used.
Thanks in advance.
For composer you just need to composer remove vendor/package
And for npm just do npm uninstall <package-name>
I think you can use this to remove packages from composer.json. According to the documentation: https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#remove
The remove command removes packages from the composer.json file from
the current directory.
php composer.phar remove vendor/package vendor/package2
After removing the requirements, the modified requirements will be
uninstalled.
I've made a Composer package called nickdekruijk/larapages. It works fine when I do a composer required nickdekruijk/larapages for the first time. But after I add the service provider to config/app.php I can't run composer update anymore:
$ composer update
> php artisan clear-compiled
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Nothing to install or update
Generating autoload files
> php artisan optimize
[Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException]
Class 'NickDeKruijk\LaraPages\LaraPagesServiceProvider' not found
The only workaround so far is to remove the service provider (or comment the line) from config/app.php, run composer update, then put it back (uncomment) again which is pretty annoying. Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to fix my package maybe?
If the package is already installed, there shouldn't be an issue. Are you sure there isn't a problem with the namespacing of the package, and that the class actually exists?
As a workaround, one which is helpful for any related issue where a service provider isn't actually available yet, you can run Composer and not have it run Laravel's scripts (which cause the error).
composer update --no-scripts
I think I fixed it!
Problem was the autoloader.
First when I moved the files from src/* to src/NickDeKruijk/LaraPages/* composer update was working just fine. But I didn't want to move the files permanently (screwing up my git repo) so I added this to the package composer.json:
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"NickDeKruijk\\LaraPages\\": "src/"
}
}
Now I can run composer update just fine!
I tried to delete barryvdh/laravel-debugbar from my laravel installation, and it seems I didn't make something right.
What I did so far :
composer remove barryvdh/laravel-debugbar
I deleted then the references in config/app.php
And I've got an error :
[RuntimeException]
Error Output: PHP Fatal error:
Class 'Barryvdh\Debugbar\ServiceProvider' not found in
{mypath}\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\ProviderRepository.php on line 146
I tried dump-autoload, clear-compiled, but none works.
What did I miss ?
22/02/2016 Edit : I also tried to remove ALL the vendor folder, then install it again via composer install, but I got the error again when the command php artisan clear-compiled was run angain.
Ok, it seems I had played with artisan commands, and the configuration file was cached (via php artisan config:cache).
I deleted it (in bootstrap/cache/config.php) and everything works like a charm, but I also could have used the command php artisan config:clear to remove it.
When you installed Debugbar, after the package was install via composer you needed to add the class to the providers array in config/app.php. So you need to remove this line from there:
Barryvdh\Debugbar\ServiceProvider::class
If you also register the facade, then you need to remove the following from the aliases array from the same file:
'Debugbar' => Barryvdh\Debugbar\Facade::class
If you also ran php artisan vendor:publish (which is the final step described in the Installation Section from the package readme) then you can delete the config/debugbar.php file as well, although leaving that configuration file in place will not cause any issues.
Marc Brillault's answer is correct. I am adding more clarification to that answer:
I removed debug bar class manually from the catch files. present in (bootstrap/cache/config.php).
Steps for How to remove manually class.
1.) Open this two files
`bootstrap/cache/config.php`
`config/app.php`
2.) Find this two line and remove It.
Barryvdh\Debugbar\ServiceProvider::class,
'Debugbar' => Barryvdh\Debugbar\Facade::class,
3.) run command `php artisan config:clear`
after the following this step check command php artisan list is working well.
you must:
First. Delete the references to Debugbar in config/app.php
Second. composer remove barryvdh/laravel-debugbar
In that order. If you don't, Laravel get confused ;)
The best ways you need to do is delete all file manually in all composer files.
In my laravel project, I need messaging system. I trying to install "cmgmyr/laravel-messenger" and getting this error
"Class 'Cmgmyr\Messenger\MessengerServiceProvider::class' not found"
when i execute this command
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Cmgmyr\Messenger\MessengerServiceProvider"
any suggestion to resolve this problem.
Most likely is that you have not installed the required dependency. Once you have added the dependency to your composer.json remember to run composer install.
To make this process really easy for yourself instead of adding the dependency to composer.json you can run composer require cmgmyr/laravel-messenger. This will add the latest version to your composer file and install the dependency for you.
I am following the instruction of the link
https://github.com/Zizaco/entrust
I have written "zizaco/entrust": "dev-master" in require section of composer.json and then update it on command prompt by the command php composer.json update.
I have also run the command php composer.json dump-autoload.
It gets updated.
I have added the provider and alias line in app.php and in Auth.php model and table is also set as 'users'.
But when I run the command php artisan entrust:migration
It shows me the error as follows
Please help me as I need to work on it fast.
Kindly let me know what and where is the problem.
Help is appreciated.
I had a similar problem where by each time I run 'composer update' the packages I needed where not included as I expected. So as my solution, each time I want to start a project in laravel 4, I first edit my composer.json file before running 'composer install'. Since then I do not have such embarrassment again.