# Can't install Sage with composer create-project due to php version error **URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/cant-install-sage-with-composer-create-project-due-to-php-version-error/10169 **Category:** sage **Created:** 2017-08-09T02:24:59Z **Posts:** 11 ## Post 1 by @richard — 2017-08-09T02:24:59Z Trying to install Sage 9 via composer into a wordpress install running php 7.1.4 with: ``` composer create-project roots/sage sagetest dev-master ``` but am getting this error: ``` Could not find package roots/sage with version dev-master in a version installable using your PHP version 5.6.30 ``` phpinfo(); confirms I am running php 7.1.4 Thoughts on this? Thanks in advance --- ## Post 2 by @ben — 2017-08-09T02:33:51Z Is your `phpinfo` output the same as your PHP CLI though? What happens when you try `php -v`? --- ## Post 3 by @richard — 2017-08-09T02:55:40Z Oh damn, yeah, that’s the issue. :confused: Thanks! --- ## Post 4 by @mecanographik — 2017-08-25T12:44:11Z Hi @richard @ben I have the same issue i have php -v **5.6.30** so i have tried to install php 7 on my system with : `curl -s https://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 7.1` but i still get php -v 5.6.30 in my terminal also, in my .bash\_profile i have those lines : ``` export PATH="/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin:$PATH" alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer.phar" alias wpinstall="~/Scripts/wpinstall.sh" export NVM_DIR="/Users/Mecanographik/.nvm" [-s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm #source ~/.bashrc export PATH="$HOME/.yarn/bin:$PATH" ``` any help would be really appreciated ! :sweat_smile: --- ## Post 5 by @mecanographik — 2017-08-25T13:03:27Z Hi @ben Nevermind i have managed to fix my problem with brew using this ressource : > ``` brew update && brew upgrade brew tap homebrew/dupes brew tap homebrew/versions brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php brew unlink php56 brew install php71 ``` than in your terminal, type: export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH now i have php 7.1 version on my system and the following command works :wink::rocket: `composer create-project roots/sage your-theme-name dev-master` Hope it helps someone else --- ## Post 6 by @kiryl — 2017-09-26T19:57:30Z Have same issue. ``` php -v PHP 7.0.22-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (cli) ( NTS ) ``` **composer create-project roots/sage your-theme-name dev-master** runs to: ``` Installing roots/sage (dev-master b4421be2696bd6021a11eb6893bb6fbb8a949d15) - Installing roots/sage (dev-master master) Cloning master Created project in your-theme-name Loading composer repositories with package information Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages. Problem 1 - Installation request for illuminate/support v5.4.27 -> satisfiable by illuminate/support[v5.4.27]. - illuminate/support v5.4.27 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system. Problem 2 - Installation request for squizlabs/php_codesniffer 2.9.1 -> satisfiable by squizlabs/php_codesniffer[2.9.1]. - squizlabs/php_codesniffer 2.9.1 requires ext-simplexml * -> the requested PHP extension simplexml is missing from your system. Problem 3 - illuminate/support v5.4.27 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system. - illuminate/console v5.4.27 requires illuminate/support 5.4.* -> satisfiable by illuminate/support[v5.4.27]. - Installation request for illuminate/console v5.4.27 -> satisfiable by illuminate/console[v5.4.27]. To enable extensions, verify that they are enabled in those .ini files: - /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/10-opcache.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/10-pdo.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-calendar.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-ctype.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-exif.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-fileinfo.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-ftp.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-gettext.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-iconv.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-json.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-phar.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-posix.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-readline.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-shmop.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-sockets.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-sysvmsg.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-sysvsem.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-sysvshm.ini - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-tokenizer.ini You can also run `php --ini` inside terminal to see which files are used by PHP in CLI mode. ``` --- ## Post 7 by @ben — 2017-09-26T20:12:30Z [Please read the post above yours](https://discourse.roots.io/t/cant-install-sage-with-composer-create-project-due-to-php-version-error/10169/5) --- ## Post 8 by @kiryl — 2017-09-26T20:15:53Z But I already have “php”: “\>=7”, mentioned by php -v --- ## Post 9 by @kalenjohnson — 2017-09-26T20:23:22Z Please READ the error you pasted You’re missing PHP extensions --- ## Post 10 by @kiryl — 2017-09-26T21:09:19Z Thank you, guys. Sharing my expirience in Ubuntu Linux. Composer has obsolete PHP\_CodeSniffer version. ``` sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install php-mbstring sudo apt install php-pear && sudo pear install PHP_CodeSniffer ``` --- ## Post 11 by @Simeon — 2018-05-14T01:23:25Z > [@mecanographik](#): > > brew update && brew upgrade > brew tap homebrew/dupes > brew tap homebrew/versions > brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php > brew unlink php56 > brew install php71 Some of these have been depreciated. A helpful, more recent blog post here: > **[Migrate your local PHP 7.2 setup to Homebrew v1.5 - Andy Grunwald](https://andygrunwald.com/blog/migrate-your-local-php-7.2-setup-to-homebrew-v1.5/)** > > Homebrew v1.5 changed the way how the PHP programming language packages are installed. This blog post is a small guide on how you migrate your local Homebrew PHP setup while updating to Homebrew v1.5. Came across this problem this morning on a fresh install of Sage where the error similar to _cannot satisfy requirements_ because I had php7.1 locally and needed greater than that. Also didn’t realise composer was looking at my system’s php, not the virtual machine’s… Hope this helps.