Composer TransportException translation file could not be written

Question

I am installing laravel 4 and running "composer install" command. It was able to install 13 packages successfully, but when it came time to install symfony/translation, it downloaded it 100% and then threw an error:

[Composer\Downloader\TransportException] The "https://api.github.com/repos/symfony/Translation/zipball/6bc4b753c1ae5640c0eacdbe27c04a69cde3d10d" appears broken, and returned an empty 200 response

Could it be because the original is 0 bytes? Is there a work around to installing this package?

Answer 1

Dropping in to confim that I'm seeing this too so I guess I can stop panicking now as it seems to be an error somewhere between Packagist and Github (still a problem to my boss but something to be said for it not being your fault!)

edit: I'm having this issue with kriswallsmith / assetic running Symfony 2.1.9

update: Received an email from Github support indicating this is an issue that they are aware of and are actively looking into it.

I've just added the '--prefer-source' flag until the issue is resolved on their end.

Answer 2

I had this problem for twitter bootstrap:

[Composer\Downloaded\TransportException]
The "https://api.github.com/repos/twitter/bootstrap/zipball/v2.3.1" file could not be written to /my/path/Symfony/vendor/twitter/bootstrap/e01f28f3c03a11c104bae8d4a1b59d21.1:

Doing "composer self-update" changed it to:

[Composer\Downloader\TransportException]
"https://api.github.com/repos/twitter/bootstrap/zipball/v2.3.1" appears broken, and returned an empty 200 response

Using "composer update --prefer-source" seems to have installed it properly.

So it looks like github zip file download is broken.