Composer/Laravel: How to add/update a specific package

Question

How do you add/update a specific package using composer? I'm using the latest Laravel as well not sure if it matters but anything that can help to determine the answer.

I have also tried the following from an old Stackoverflow post I had found, but it didn't work for me. It appended the package to composer.json and then proceeded to update everything anyways. Here is the link: How to update a single library with Composer?

And here is the package I tried to add to my project: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

Thank you very much for your time and help!

Edit:

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Require and update are not working they update everything as well. Is it possible that I'm running the command incorrectly? I'm still green behind the ears when it comes to composer :S

$ composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf
lease provide a version constraint for the barryvdh/laravel-dompdf requirement: *
/composer.json has been updated
oading composer repositories with package information
pdating dependencies (including require-dev)
 - Removing orchestra/testbench (v2.1.1)
 - Removing symfony/security (v2.4.3)
 - Removing symfony/translation (v2.4.3)
 - Installing symfony/translation (v2.4.6)
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 - Removing symfony/http-foundation (v2.4.3)
 - Installing symfony/http-foundation (v2.4.6)
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 - Removing symfony/event-dispatcher (v2.4.3)
 - Installing symfony/event-dispatcher (v2.5.0)
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 - Removing symfony/debug (v2.4.3)
 - Installing symfony/debug (v2.4.6)
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 - Removing symfony/http-kernel (v2.4.3)
 - Installing symfony/http-kernel (v2.4.6)
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 - Removing symfony/routing (v2.4.3)
 - Installing symfony/routing (v2.4.6)
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 - Removing symfony/process (v2.4.3)
 - Installing symfony/process (v2.4.6)
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 - Removing symfony/finder (v2.4.3)
 - Installing symfony/finder (v2.4.6)
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 - Removing symfony/dom-crawler (v2.4.3)
 - Installing symfony/dom-crawler (v2.4.6)
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 - Removing symfony/css-selector (v2.4.3)
 - Installing symfony/css-selector (v2.4.6)
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 - Removing symfony/console (v2.4.3)
 - Installing symfony/console (v2.4.6)
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 - Removing symfony/browser-kit (v2.4.3)
 - Installing symfony/browser-kit (v2.4.6)
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 - Removing swiftmailer/swiftmailer (v5.1.0)
 - Installing swiftmailer/swiftmailer (v5.2.0)
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 - Removing stack/builder (v1.0.1)
 - Installing stack/builder (v1.0.2)
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  - Removing patchwork/utf8 (v1.1.21)
  - Installing patchwork/utf8 (v1.1.23)
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  - Removing nesbot/carbon (1.8.0)
  - Installing nesbot/carbon (1.9.0)
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  - Removing monolog/monolog (1.9.0)
  - Installing monolog/monolog (1.10.0)
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  - Removing symfony/filesystem (v2.4.3)
  - Installing symfony/filesystem (v2.5.0)
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  - Installing symfony/security-core (v2.4.6)
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  - Removing laravel/framework (v4.1.28)
  - Installing laravel/framework (v4.1.30)
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  - Removing chumper/datatable (2.2.2)
  - Installing chumper/datatable (2.3)
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  - Removing ivaynberg/select2 (3.4.6)
  - Installing ivaynberg/select2 (3.4.8)
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  - Installing phenx/php-font-lib (0.2.2)
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  - Installing dompdf/dompdf (v0.6.1)
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  - Installing barryvdh/laravel-dompdf (v0.3.1)
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symfony/security-core suggests installing symfony/validator (For using the user password constraint)
symfony/security-core suggests installing symfony/expression-language (For using the expression voter)
Generating autoload files
Compiling component files
Generating optimized class loader

Solution 1

I tried the following and it seemed to work for me.

You'll have to first add barryvdh/laravel-dompdf to the composer.json file. Then perform the following:

 composer update barryvdh/laravel-dompdf --lock

Solution 2

here

composer update barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

composer docs