Why does PHP's composer require command hang?

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Note: I know this is a PHP question, but - and I could be wrong here - but I think the problem may only exist with PHP, composer on ubuntu.

Anyway, almost every tutorial, including composer itself say run the composer require command to install a package, e.g.

composer require robmorgan/phinx

However, for me, on Ubuntu , all this ever does is hang the terminal, until I Ctrl+c of of the terminal.
How can I get this command to work?

Can you trace the calls with strace -f composer require robmorgan/phinx — heemayl, May 28 '17 at 03:06
@heemayl ah, great idea, Ive run your strace command. the output is that it sits there in a polling loop. it seems to be waiting for some kind of network or remote response — the_velour_fog, May 28 '17 at 03:11
it seems to pull down data bit by bit. I think the bottleneck must be with packagist's server - its probably getting hammered pretty hard — the_velour_fog, May 28 '17 at 03:14
hmmmm...now, as you have found the potential reason, you can check the address directly to make sure of things... — heemayl, May 28 '17 at 03:15

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 21 '20 at 13:09

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To see why composer hangs, use the -vvv argument to make the output more verbose.

composer -vvv require robmorgan/phinx

answered Apr 21 '20 at 13:09

Epskampie

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