"To initialize a project, please create a composer.json" while updating Flarum

heyitsritesh

I am trying to update a 1-year old Flarum install and getting this error:

To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file as described in the https://getcomposer.org/ "Getting Started" section.

The command I am running is:

composer update --prefer-dist --no-plugins --no-dev -a --with-all-dependencies

Can someone please help?

luceos

heyitsritesh looks like you are in the wrong directory, there is no composer.json in that directory, also check for a file called flarum to know you are in the right place 😉

heyitsritesh

luceos I changed the directory to flarum and it worked. Thanks.

Now it is throwing another error:

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 689922048) (tried to allocate 20480 bytes)

askvortsov

heyitsritesh You should update your composer install to v2.

heyitsritesh

askvortsov thank you. I don't know how to do that. I didn't find anything in Flarum docs.

heyitsritesh

Ran composer update and it's showing this error:

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 713011200) (tried to allocate 20480 bytes)

luceos

heyitsritesh

composer selfupdate

Might need to run that a couple of times so that it updates to v2, check with

composer -V

heyitsritesh

luceos it asked me to run this: composer self-update --2

I ran it and got this error:

[Composer\Downloader\FilesystemException]
Filesystem exception:
Composer update failed: "/usr/local/bin/composer" could not be written.
rename(/home/master/.composer/cache/composer-temp.phar,/usr/local/bin/compo
ser): Permission denied

luceos

heyitsritesh run with sudo, sudo composer selfupdate

heyitsritesh

luceos thanks again. I'm on Cloudways and they don't allow sudo

Will get in touch with their team