Laravel composer absolute path error in VB

Question

I run local virtual box development server with ubuntu 12.04. To access files I use virtual box shared folders which are mounted into ubuntu at /media/Sites. This dir I use as DocumentRoot for apache.

When I try to run composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist I get error:

    [InvalidArgumentException]
$from (/media/Sites/test.dev/laravel/vendor/bin/boris) and $to () must be absolute paths.

I assume problem is because dir /media/Sites is outside of ubuntu in windows 8.1. I also tried to create new laravel project in some linux dir and it worked without any error.

What would be the best fix for this? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Be sure you have all of the requirements installed:

$ apt-get install git php5 php5-curl php5-cli php5-mcrypt php5-json

then

$ wget https://github.com/laravel/laravel/archive/master.zip
$ unzip master.zip project
$ cd project
$ composer install --verbose 

to see a stack trace of the error, then post it here for more help.

Answer 2

there is some bug in the boris package, were it tries to create a symlink to another directory. the solution to this is to manually create the missing file vendor/bin/boris with this content:

../d11wtq/boris/bin/boris

then run composer update again and it should work. (in our case we had also some additional problem with unaccessible files created by composer - the files exist in host but are not accessible in guest - vagrant reload helps in this case)

Answer 3

Had the same happen to me. Solved it by installing php5-readline.

sudo apt-get install php5-readline