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Composer install error Failed to extract

Yesterday I updated a CakePHP app as I routinely do and a strange error popup-ed in the composer install stage of my docker build:

Failed to extract wyrihaximus/twig-view: (9) unzip -qq  '/var/www/html/vendor/composer/tmp-d8e7d258ae112df88e50fadda2ad540d' -d '/var/www/html/vendor/composer/c379dd11'

unzip:  cannot find or open /var/www/html/vendor/composer/tmp-d8e7d258ae112df88e50fadda2ad540d.

    This most likely is due to a custom installer plugin not handling the returned Promise from the downloader
    See https://github.com/composer/installers/commit/5006d0c28730ade233a8f42ec31ac68fb1c5c9bb for an example fix
    Failed to extract cakephp/bake: (9) unzip -qq  '/var/www/html/vendor/composer/tmp-0ea29ff25d5dad521623339cec9bf3bb' -d '/var/www/html/vendor/composer/cc137293'
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The same happened with cakephp/debug_kit, cakephp/migrations, cakephp/bake and josegonzalez/cakephp-upload dependencies.

After researching and testing I realized Composer had updated to version 2 a couple of days ago and in my Dockerfile I installed it with the command:
RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/bin --filename=composer

Clearly this brought Coposer's latest version and broke some dependencies. The solution was to freeze Composer's version download to 1.x:
RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/composer-1.phar -o composer.phar

Doing this also required me to run php composer.phar install instead of composer install.

And done, the app was good and running once again!

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Tony Pagaduan

Thanks for this. I am in the same situation with my Dockerfile.
Instead of downloading the phar file, you can still install the binary so you can keep using composer install.

getcomposer.org/doc/faqs/how-to-in...

Change
php composer-setup.php --quiet
to
php composer-setup.php --quiet --filename=composer --version=1.10.19

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Uriel Bitton

Nice one Tony.
Welcome to DEV as well!

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Guillermo Croppi

You are my hero