Composer loading from cache

Question

i ran in a problem using composer for installing/uninstalling some dependencies in laravel which coming back after deleting them from composer.json and deleting their vendor folder, i initially used dflydev's markdown package but now i wanted to change it to michelf's php-markdown, but i cant uninstall the old one since it comes back loaded from cache, which i checked at AppData\Roaming\Composer and is empty, any clue on to why this is happening?

  - Installing dflydev/markdown (dev-master dee1f7a)     Loading from cache 

Answer 1

You can use the following command to clear the cache irrespective of the OS you are on:

php composer.phar clear-cache 

or if composer is installed globally

composer clear-cache 

Hope this helps

Answer 2

I think, you can run your composer commands with --no-cache option flag like

composer install --no-cache 

Or

composer require <package-name> --no-cache 

Or

composer update [<package-name>] --no-cache