Laravel

Laravel composer install – Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

If you are running Laravel app, on Ubuntu local machine or cloud server.

You might come across following error sometime while running composer install.

Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

Problem 1
- Installation request for erusev/parsedown 1.7.1 -> satisfiable by erusev/parsedown[1.7.1].
- erusev/parsedown 1.7.1 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
Problem 2
- Installation request for laravel/framework v5.6.38 -> satisfiable by laravel/framework[v5.6.38].
- laravel/framework v5.6.38 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
Problem 3
- Installation request for phar-io/manifest 1.0.3 -> satisfiable by phar-io/manifest[1.0.3].
- phar-io/manifest 1.0.3 requires ext-dom * -> the requested PHP extension dom is missing from your system.
Problem 4
- Installation request for phpunit/php-code-coverage 6.0.7 -> satisfiable by phpunit/php-code-coverage[6.0.7].
- phpunit/php-code-coverage 6.0.7 requires ext-dom * -> the requested PHP extension dom is missing from your system.
Problem 5
- Installation request for phpunit/phpunit 7.3.5 -> satisfiable by phpunit/phpunit[7.3.5].
- phpunit/phpunit 7.3.5 requires ext-dom * -> the requested PHP extension dom is missing from your system.
Problem 6
- Installation request for theseer/tokenizer 1.1.0 -> satisfiable by theseer/tokenizer[1.1.0].
- theseer/tokenizer 1.1.0 requires ext-dom * -> the requested PHP extension dom is missing from your system.
Problem 7
- laravel/framework v5.6.38 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
- laravel/tinker v1.0.7 requires illuminate/console ~5.1 -> satisfiable by laravel/framework[v5.6.38].
- Installation request for laravel/tinker v1.0.7 -> satisfiable by laravel/tinker[v1.0.7].

To enable extensions, verify that they are enabled in your .ini files:
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/php.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/10-mysqlnd.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/10-opcache.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/10-pdo.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-apcu.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-apcu_bc.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-calendar.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-ctype.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-curl.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-exif.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-fileinfo.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-ftp.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-gettext.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-iconv.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-json.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-mysqli.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-pdo_mysql.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-phar.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-posix.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-readline.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-shmop.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sockets.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sysvmsg.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sysvsem.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sysvshm.ini
- /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-tokenizer.ini
You can also run `php --ini` inside terminal to see which files are used by PHP in CLI mode.

That’s mean you are missing required PHP extensions.

This issue can be resolved by running follow command.

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-soap php7.2-gd php7.2-xml php7.2-cli php7.2-zip

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