Yii2 | requires bower-asset/jquery

Question

I'm trying to install Yii2 via composer:

composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1"
composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic

~/.composer/composer.json

{
    "require": {
    "fxp/composer-asset-plugin": "~1.1.1"
    }
}

result:

Problem 1
- yiisoft/yii2 2.0.x-dev requires bower-asset/jquery 2.1.*@stable | 1.11.*@stable -> no matching package found.
- yiisoft/yii2 dev-master requires bower-asset/jquery 2.1.*@stable | 1.11.*@stable -> no matching package found.
- yiisoft/yii2 2.0.6 requires bower-asset/jquery 2.1.*@stable | 1.11.*@stable -> no matching package found.
- yiisoft/yii2 2.0.5 requires bower-asset/jquery 2.1.*@stable | 1.11.*@stable -> no matching package found.
- Installation request for yiisoft/yii2 >=2.0.5 -> satisfiable by yiisoft/yii2[2.0.5, 2.0.6, dev-master, 2.0.x-dev].

What do I do wrong?

Solution 1

rm -rf ~/.composer/vendor
rm ~/.composer/composer.lock
cd ~/.composer
composer clear-cache
composer self-update
composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:^1.1.3"
composer install

Then go to your work directory and run:

composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic

Solution 2

You can try the newer version:

composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:^1.2.0"

then:

composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic

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Non-install Bower-Asset way:

You can download Yii2 by Install from an Archive File. By this way you won't need to handle Bower issue.

Further, if you need to update composer without handling Bower, you can require yidas/yii2-composer-bower-skip before yiisoft/yii2 in composer.json file:

"require": {
    "php": ">=5.4.0",
    "yidas/yii2-composer-bower-skip": "~2.0.0",
    "yiisoft/yii2": "~2.0.5",
    "yiisoft/yii2-bootstrap": "~2.0.0"
}

Instead, if you want to create yii2 project without bower-asset issue:

yidas/yii2-app-basic:

composer create-project yidas/yii2-app-basic

yidas/yii2-app-advanced:

composer create-project yidas/yii2-app-advanced

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From Yii 2.0.13, it used Asset-Packagist solution instead of fxp/composer-asset-plugin

Solution 3

This problem could be also resolved via

composer require yidas/yii2-bower-asset

More details about this package: https://packagist.org/packages/yidas/yii2-bower-asset

Solution 4

https://getcomposer.org/Composer-Setup.exe download and install. After installing run this command line in your project folder composer update

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