Title: Cannot install packages Last modified: August 20, 2017 --- # Cannot install packages * [mat1989](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mat1989/) * (@mat1989) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-packages/) * Hi everyone, * I’m new here and was wondering if you guys could help me with an issue. I opened a issue on GitHub ([https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/issues/4289](https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/issues/4289)) but was told this was the place to ask. The issue is when I try to install packages my terminal gets up to updating dependancies and then stops without installing the package, even though when you view the require composer file the packages are there. I’ve updated my CLI to 1.3.0 on all my machines (work macbook pro, imac, macbook and personal macbook pro) and I’m getting the same issue on all. I’ve set up my WP-CLI to work with MAMP and not sure if that is the reason. * Thanks for taking the time to view my message * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcannot-install-packages%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Thread Starter [mat1989](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mat1989/) * (@mat1989) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-packages/#post-9425462) * After doing some debugging with `wp package install --debug iandunn/wp-cli-rename- db-prefix; echo $?` which gave me: * ``` Debug (bootstrap): No readable global config found (0.088s) Debug (bootstrap): No project config found (0.09s) Debug (bootstrap): argv: /usr/local/bin/wp package install --debug iandunn/wp-cli-rename-db-prefix (0.09s) Debug (bootstrap): ABSPATH defined: / (0.092s) Debug (bootstrap): Running command: package install (0.093s) Installing package iandunn/wp-cli-rename-db-prefix (dev-master) Updating /Users/Mat/.wp-cli/packages/composer.json to require the package... Using Composer to install the package... --- Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies 255 ``` * So I then did `composer install -vv; echo $?` and `composer update -vvv`, which gave the messages: * ``` Loading composer repositories with package information Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file Dependency resolution completed in 0.000 seconds Analyzed 65 packages to resolve dependencies Analyzed 69 rules to resolve dependencies Nothing to install or update Generating autoload files 0 ``` * ``` Reading ./composer.json Loading config file ./composer.json Checked CA file /private/etc/ssl/cert.pem: valid Reading /Users/Mat/.composer/composer.json Loading config file /Users/Mat/.composer/composer.json Reading /Users/Mat/Sites/mamp/SevenCapital/wp-content/themes/sevencapital/vendor/composer/installed.json Reading /Users/Mat/.composer/vendor/composer/installed.json Running 1.5.1 (2017-08-09 16:07:22) with PHP 7.0.20 on Darwin / 16.7.0 Loading composer repositories with package information Downloading https://packagist.org/packages.json Writing /Users/Mat/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/packages.json into cache Updating dependencies (including require-dev) Reading /Users/Mat/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/p-provider-2013.json from cache Reading /Users/Mat/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/p-provider-2014.json from cache Reading /Users/Mat/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/p-provider-2015.json from cache Reading /Users/Mat/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/p-provider-2016.json from cache Reading /Users/Mat/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/p-provider-2016-10.json from cache Reading /Users/Mat/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/p-provider-2017-01.json from cache Reading /Users/Mat/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/p-provider-2017-04.json from cache Reading /Users/Mat/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/p-provider-2017-07.json from cache Reading /Users/Mat/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/p-provider-archived.json from cache Downloading http://packagist.org/p/provider-latest%24281164a6e2f5ffc23655d06d2caf7698c1d626895a34dae9a1574cb36b146341.json Writing /Users/Mat/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/p-provider-latest.json into cache Reading /Users/Mat/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/provider-vlucas$phpdotenv.json from cache Downloading http://packagist.org/p/mobiledetect/mobiledetectlib%2413abe9f810c0ad1b871c9882f826f9101da17aae7c76976ec2c4cf8b4dd351cb.json Writing /Users/Mat/.composer/cache/repo/https---packagist.org/provider-mobiledetect$mobiledetectlib.json into cache Resolving dependencies through SAT Dependency resolution completed in 0.003 seconds Analyzed 136 packages to resolve dependencies Analyzed 417 rules to resolve dependencies Nothing to install or update Reading /Users/Mat/Sites/mamp/SevenCapital/wp-content/themes/sevencapital/vendor/composer/installed.json Reading ./composer.lock ``` * [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/) * (@danielbachhuber) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-packages/#post-9425795) * Hi [@mat1989](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mat1989/), * Can you review [this common memory-related fatal](https://make.wordpress.org/cli/handbook/common-issues/#php-fatal-error-allowed-memory-size-of-999999-bytes-exhausted-tried-to-allocate-99-bytes) to see if it’s the problem you’re experiencing? Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Cannot install packages’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [wp-cli](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-cli/) * In: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/) * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-packages/#post-9425795) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics