How to install Laravel 5.8

Question

$ composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel="5.8.*" larastart

it's not working and I tried some other ways too but not worked for me

This is the error I am getting:

Content-Length mismatch, received 188377 bytes out of the expected 620920 repo.packagist.org could not be fully loaded, package information was loaded from the local cache and may be out of date

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home Single Language
Version 10.0.18363 Build 18363
Other OS Description    Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name DESKTOP-7CV9HTK
System Manufacturer HP
System Model    HP ENVY Laptop 13-ah1xxx
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU  5HZ05PA#AKL
Processor   Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz, 1992 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date   Insyde F.12, 11/8/2018
SMBIOS Version  3.0
Embedded Controller Version 69.72
BIOS Mode   UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer  HP
BaseBoard Product   850B
BaseBoard Version   69.72
Platform Role   Mobile
Secure Boot State   On
PCR7 Configuration  Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory   C:\WINDOWS
System Directory    C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale  United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer  Version = "10.0.18362.387"
User Name   DESKTOP-7CV9HTK\Hanifullah Jamalzai
Time Zone   Afghanistan Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory   15.8 GB
Available Physical Memory   9.89 GB
Total Virtual Memory    18.2 GB
Available Virtual Memory    10.3 GB
Page File Space 2.38 GB
Page File   C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection   Off
Virtualization-based security   Not enabled
Device Encryption Support   Elevation Required to View
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions    Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions   Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware    Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes

Solution 1

you can try this:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel projectName "5.8.*"

it requires a double quotes over Laravel version (e.g. 5.8.*) for most systems.

Solution 2

Laravel doc is very helpful.you can find all version install code here by changing the version of laravel doc

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel yourProjectName "5.8.*"

above code for creating laravel 5.8 version project. Happy coding!!

Solution 3

If you have composer installed you can simply use following command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel <your_project_name> "5.8.*"