Laravel composer install hangs on “Installing dependencies”

Question

I cloned project written by laravel from bitbucket to my localhost. Now I want to install composer.

When I try to run composer install , installation hangs at:

Loading composer repositories with package information Installing dependencies (including require-dev)

Answer 1

Try installing using the command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel

It might take a little while but is definitely more reliable. If this is hanging you can try installing with the laravel.phar which can be found at http://laravel.com/laravel.phar