I am using Windows 10 and composer. I'm getting an error when I attempt to install the laravel installer. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is the full output when I attempt to install:
$ composer global require laravel/installer
Changed current directory to C:/Users/rudy/AppData/Roaming/Composer
Using version ^4.1 for laravel/installer
./composer.json has been created
Running composer update laravel/installer
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Lock file operations: 12 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals
- Locking laravel/installer (v4.1.0)
- Locking psr/container (1.0.0)
- Locking symfony/console (v5.1.8)
- Locking symfony/polyfill-ctype (v1.20.0)
- Locking symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme (v1.20.0)
- Locking symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer (v1.20.0)
- Locking symfony/polyfill-mbstring (v1.20.0)
- Locking symfony/polyfill-php73 (v1.20.0)
- Locking symfony/polyfill-php80 (v1.20.0)
- Locking symfony/process (v5.1.8)
- Locking symfony/service-contracts (v2.2.0)
- Locking symfony/string (v5.1.8)
Writing lock file
Installing dependencies from lock file (including require-dev)
Package operations: 12 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals
- Installing symfony/polyfill-php80 (v1.20.0): Extracting archive
- Installing symfony/process (v5.1.8): Extracting archive
- Installing symfony/polyfill-mbstring (v1.20.0): Extracting archive
- Installing symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer (v1.20.0): Extracting archive
- Installing symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme (v1.20.0): Extracting archive
- Installing symfony/polyfill-ctype (v1.20.0): Extracting archive
- Installing symfony/string (v5.1.8): Extracting archive
- Installing psr/container (1.0.0): Extracting archive
- Installing symfony/service-contracts (v2.2.0): Extracting archive
- Installing symfony/polyfill-php73 (v1.20.0): Extracting archive
- Installing symfony/console (v5.1.8): Extracting archive
- Installing laravel/installer (v4.1.0): Extracting archive
Skipped installation of bin bin/laravel for package laravel/installer: name conflicts with an existing file
6 package suggestions were added by new dependencies, use `composer suggest` to see details.
Generating autoload files
Installation failed, deleting ./composer.json.
[RuntimeException]
Could not scan for classes inside "C:\Users\rudy\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor/symfony/polyfill-php73/Resources/s
tubs" which does not appear to be a file nor a folder
require [--dev] [--dry-run] [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--fixed] [--no-suggest] [--no-progress] [--no-update] [--no-install] [--no-scripts] [--update-no-dev] [-w|--update-with-dependencies] [-W|--update-with-all-dependencies] [--with-dependencies] [--with-all-dependencies] [--ignore-platform-req IGNORE-PLATFORM-REQ] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--prefer-stable] [--prefer-lowest] [--sort-packages] [-o|--optimize-autoloader] [-a|--classmap-authoritative] [--apcu-autoloader] [--apcu-autoloader-prefix APCU-AUTOLOADER-PREFIX] [--] [<packages>]...
I reinstalled Composer 4 times before making this post. After unsuccessfully trying the solutions above, I tried reinstalling composer again and then ran the laravel/installer - and it worked fine. Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply.