Sorry to post here but composer is the worst thing ever happened to me in drupal. I was working with drush for ages and everything worked. Now every second time all explodes into errors and dependency mega fail.

I have a clean drupal set up and just want to install the "ctools development version". I am not sure if that has to do with the package or anything, so i appreciate any help or hint.

The problem

"composer require drupal/ctools:3.x-dev"

./composer.json has been updated
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - drupal/ctools_block 3.2.0 requires drupal/ctools 3.2.0 -> satisfiable by drupal/ctools[3.2.0] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - drupal/ctools_block 3.2.0 requires drupal/ctools 3.2.0 -> satisfiable by drupal/ctools[3.2.0] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - drupal/ctools_block 3.2.0 requires drupal/ctools 3.2.0 -> satisfiable by drupal/ctools[3.2.0] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - Installation request for drupal/ctools_block (locked at 3.2.0) -> satisfiable by drupal/ctools_block[3.2.0].

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marcoka created an issue. See original summary.

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mortona2k commented

I was able to recreate these errors.. It looks like you have ctools_block in your composer.json required as "3.2", and then tried to require ctools "3.x-dev".

I'm not too sure what composer was trying to do here. Ctools_block is a standalone module for D7 and a module in ctools d8. Looks like requiring it in a d8 site will actually grab ctools.

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marcoka commented

Hm i never did a compass require drupal/ctools_block. That would add an entry.
I also have no entry for ctools_block.
But i gave up and copied it manually. Composer is hell for me and i know it for years. Always trouble with simple tasks.

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joelpittet
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Try this

composer why drupal/ctools_block

I find this helps me sort things better than the error messages do... and it's opposite

composer why-not PACKAGE/PROJECT

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Also I feel your pain sometimes too, but patches in composer make up for it's annoyances (which with time you will get used to...)

https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches

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Status: Active » Fixed

Assuming you figured out I'm closing this issue.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.