How to remove a package from Laravel using composer?

laravel laravel-4 package composer-php uninstallation
igaster picture igaster · Apr 17, 2014 · Viewed 604k times · Source

What is the correct way to remove a package from Laravel using composer? So far I've tried:

  1. Remove declaration from composer.json (in "require" section)
  2. Remove any Class Aliases from app.php
  3. Remove any references to the package from my code :-)
  4. Run composer update
  5. Run composer dump-autoload

None of these options are working! What am I missing?

Answer

steadweb picture steadweb · Dec 12, 2014

Composer 1.x and 2.x

Running the following command will remove the package from vendor (or wherever you install packages), composer.json and composer.lock. Change vendor/package appropriately.

composer remove vendor/package

Obviously you'll need to remove references to that package within your app.

I'm currently running the following version of composer:

Composer version 1.0-dev (7b13507dd4d3b93578af7d83fbf8be0ca686f4b5) 2014-12-11 21:52:29

Documentation

https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#remove

Updates

  • 26/10/2020 - Updated answer to assert command works for v1.x and v2.x of Composer

Related questions

How Do I Get the Query Builder to Output Its Raw SQL Query as a String?

Given the following code: DB::table('users')->get(); I want to get the raw SQL query string that the database query builder above will generate. In this example, it would be SELECT * FROM users. How do I do …

Read More
Laravel Redirect Back with() Message

I am trying to redirect to the previous page with a message when there is a fatal error. App::fatal(function($exception) { return Redirect::back()->with('msg', 'The Message'); } In the view trying to access the msg with …

Read More
Could not open input file: artisan

When trying to create a new laravel project, The following error appears on the CLI: Could not open input file: artisan Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-install-cmd event returned with an error I am using the latest version of …

Read More