How to choose version of laravel

Question

Hi I was using laravel 4 and due to a error on my computer I had to uninstall it ,I wanted to reinstall version 4.2 but it keeps installing version 5

composer create-project laravel/laravel {directory} --prefer-dist 4.2

any help would be appreciated ,Thanks

Answer 1

composer create-project laravel/laravel=4.2 {directory} --prefer-dist

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