Composer: spdx-licenses.json - failed to open stream: No such file or directory

Created on 28 Mar 2017 · 3Comments · Source: composer/composer

I saw another ticket with the same issue that was recently closed.
I installed composer using apt on Ubuntu 16.04.

Composer version @package_branch_alias_version@ (1.0.0-beta2) 2016-03-27 16:00:34

When running composer diagnose I receive the following exception:

[ErrorException]
file_get_contents(/usr/share/php/Composer/../../data/Composer/res/spdx-licenses.json): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

The issue is the file is located at:
/usr/share/php/Composer/../data/Composer/res/spdx-licenses.json (No ../../)

Would you know how to reach the people that maintain the Ubuntu package?

Thanks.

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mikepmtl

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*For anyone with the issue the work around is to simply create a symbolic link in /usr/share.

cd /usr/share
ln -s php/data .

mikepmtl on 28 Mar 2017

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*For anyone with the issue the work around is to simply create a symbolic link in /usr/share.

cd /usr/share
ln -s php/data .

mikepmtl on 28 Mar 2017

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the Ubuntu package is not an official installation method. So support is not provided by the composer team. And it looks like their packaging is broken.

See http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/composer for details about the package maintainers.
And I strongly recommend you to use a supported installation method instead.