How can I upgrade Carbon with Laravel 5.6?

Question

I tried in cmd "composer require nesbot/carbon" but I got this:

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1

    - laravel/framework v5.6.27 requires nesbot/carbon 1.25.* -> satisfiable by nesbot/carbon[1.25.0] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - laravel/framework v5.6.27 requires nesbot/carbon 1.25.* -> satisfiable by nesbot/carbon[1.25.0] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - laravel/framework v5.6.27 requires nesbot/carbon 1.25.* -> satisfiable by nesbot/carbon[1.25.0] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - Installation request for laravel/framework (locked at v5.6.27, required as 5.6.*) -> satisfiable by laravel/framework[v5.6.27].


Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json to its original content.

Answer 1

I don't recommend doing this without extreme caution because there may be a reason why Laravel, or any of your other dependencies, require a very strict version of a package.

With that said, Composer does include a neat trick to alias versions to get around this by specifying an alias version in composer.json:

"require": {
    ...
    "nesbot/carbon": "1.32.0 as 1.25.0"
},

Note the as 1.25.0 which will trick other packages into thinking 1.32.0 is equivalent to 1.25.0 for dependencies. This trick requires exact versions.