Error when installing Flarum

ShadowArmadyl

After everything was set up to install the Flarum software, I entered the command "sudo composer create-project flarum/flarum . --stability=beta".

I got this error:
"Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages."

Not sure what this means or what I am doing wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

jordanjay29

Why are you using sudo? Composer should work without the elevation.

ShadowArmadyl

jordanjay29 I had to use sudo, if not I would get this error:

Failed to download flarum/flarum from dist: Could not delete ./:
[RuntimeException]
Could not delete ./:

webeindustry

It means there's a conflict in the software updates required in composer.json & what you currently have installed. You need to find out what is currently installed that is causing this conflict. Where did composer error out? There should have been a little more relevant information than this.

ShadowArmadyl

webeindustry Here is the full error:

Created project in .
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
- flarum/flarum-ext-akismet v0.1.0-beta.3 requires tijsverkoyen/akismet ^1.1 -> satisfiable by tijsverkoyen/akismet[1.1.0, 1.1.1].
- flarum/flarum-ext-akismet v0.1.0-beta.5 requires tijsverkoyen/akismet ^1.1 -> satisfiable by tijsverkoyen/akismet[1.1.0, 1.1.1].
- flarum/flarum-ext-akismet v0.1.0-beta.6 requires tijsverkoyen/akismet ^1.1 -> satisfiable by tijsverkoyen/akismet[1.1.0, 1.1.1].
- tijsverkoyen/akismet 1.1.1 requires ext-curl -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.
- tijsverkoyen/akismet 1.1.0 requires ext-curl -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.
- Installation request for flarum/flarum-ext-akismet ^0.1.0 -> satisfiable by flarum/flarum-ext-akismet[v0.1.0-beta.3, v0.1.0-beta.5, v0.1.0-beta.6].

To enable extensions, verify that they are enabled in those .ini files:
- /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
- /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/05-opcache.ini
- /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/10-pdo.ini
- /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-apcu.ini
- /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-gd.ini
- /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-json.ini
- /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-mysql.ini
- /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-mysqli.ini
- /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-pdo_mysql.ini
- /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-readline.ini

luceos

ext-curl -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.

Install curl ?

ShadowArmadyl

luceos Got an error when attempting to install curl.

dpkg: error processing package php5-curl (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php5 (5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.20) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-5.5
isc-dhcp-client
mysql-server
cloud-init
php5-curl
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
flarum@shadowga:~$ ^C
flarum@shadowga:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.53-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing package mysql-server-5.5 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up php5-curl (5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.20) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing package php5-curl (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up isc-dhcp-client (4.2.4-7ubuntu12.8) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing package isc-dhcp-client (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.5; however:
Package mysql-server-5.5 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package mysql-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up cloud-init (0.7.5-0ubuntu1.21) ...No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already

debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing package cloud-init (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php5 (5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.20) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-5.5
php5-curl
isc-dhcp-client
mysql-server
cloud-init
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

webeindustry

Command:
sudo rm /var/cache/debconf/*.dat

Should clear your error and allow you to depackage.