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I'm trying to run composer require phpseclib/mcrypt_compat:dev-master in an empty directory and am getting the following error:

./composer.json has been created
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - Installation request for phpseclib/mcrypt_compat dev-master -> satisfiable by phpseclib/mcrypt_compat[dev-master].
    - phpseclib/mcrypt_compat dev-master requires phpseclib/phpseclib dev-master -> satisfiable by phpseclib/phpseclib[d
ev-master] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.


Installation failed, deleting ./composer.json.

I do not understand this. https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/blob/master/composer.json says that the minimum required PHP version is 5.6.1. There are two other libs that are required but Composer isn't saying that those other libs are incompatable - Composer is saying phpseclib/phpseclib is incompatable.

Here's the output I get when I type in php -v:

PHP 7.0.26 (cli) (built: Nov 22 2017 13:19:37) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies

PHP 7.0.26 is newer than PHP 5.6.1, the minimumally required version for phpseclib/phpseclib:dev-master.

Any ideas?

neubert
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Create a composer.json file with minimum-stability specified:

{
     "require": {
         "phpseclib/mcrypt_compat": "dev-master"
      },
     "minimum-stability": "dev"
}

http://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#minimum-stability

The minimum stability defaults to stable if not specified.

Devon Bessemer
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I would like to share my experience:

I was creating one bundle and had "minimum-stability": "dev" in my bundle composer.json file. Then when I added new packages, almost all of them were installed with dev release.

Later on when I wanted to integrate this bundle into my application, I faced minimum-stability conflict error.

What I did to get rid of this situation:

In my bundle:

  • Removed "minimum-stability": "dev" from composer.json
  • Removed all installed packages with dev release and composer requirepackage name` (without specifying any version), this resulted in installing only stable versions.

In my application:

Added the local package again with these settings

"repositories": [
        {
            "type": "path",
            "url": "../xyz-auth-bundle"
        }
    ]

"require": {
  ...
  "xyz/auth-bundle": "dev-master"
}

rm -rf var/cache/; composer update; All went fine.

Some more key points:

application composer.json:

  • there is no 'minimum-stability` settings
  • "type": "project",

bundle composer.json:

  • There is no version specified

Hope this will save someone's time.

R Sun
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If you created/updated the composer.json as @Devon mentioned to the required version and see this error still, then it means that you forgot to update the composer.lock :

php71 composer.phar update phpseclib/mcrypt_compat --no-progress
Eugene Kaurov
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