Composer - Forked Laravel 4.2 not installing

Question

I have cloned the Laravel 4.2 branch from Github and pushed it to a private GitLab server. I've created a new branch from 4.2 with the name dev-bugfix and added a comment in 1 file to see if composer would install my fork and not the official Laravel.

My steps:

Cloned Laravel 4.2 branch from Github
Pushed the repo to a private GitLab server
In an existing Laravel application, removed composer.lock, ran composer dump-autoload and removed the entire vendor folder

Edited composer.json to include my private repo:

"repositories": [{
    "type": "package",
    "package": {
        "version": "dev-bugfix",
        "name": "laravel/framework",
        "source": {
            "url": "my-gitlab-repo",
            "type": "git",
            "reference": "dev-bugfix"
        }
    }
}],
"require": {
    "laravel/framework": "dev-bugfix",
    "barryvdh/laravel-debugbar": "~1.8"
},

Ran composer install

Composer starts with cloning my fork of Laravel-framework after which it installs a few dependencies. Then, Artisan wants to clean compiled, where it fails. Complete output click

What am I missing? What am I doing wrong?

Limon Monte Limon Monte · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-05T16:34:51

You need to install patchwork/utf8 package.

In the require section in your composer.json add: "patchwork/utf8": "1.2.*" and then do composer update.

Composer - Forked Laravel 4.2 not installing

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