Laravel 5.5 install

Question

When I try to install Laravel 5.5 with laravel new project --dev

[Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalThrowableError]           
  Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<<' (T_SL), expecting ']' 

It is just me or because it is not release yet?

EDIT: Btw, it is when I try to make php artisan key:generate... If I put any key in .env it works...

Thanks

Answer 1

composer create-project laravel/laravel blog  "5.5.*" --prefer-dist

Answer 2

To install Laravel 5.5 you need launch composer create-project as usual and you need to set the “dev-develop” version of the laravel/laravel package:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog dev-develop

Where:

• laravel/laravel: is the package for Laravel installation;
• blog: is the new directory for your new project (you can change it);
• dev-develop: is the next version of Laravel.

Yuo can find more information here https://medium.com/@robertodev/how-to-install-laravel-5-5-dev-d721873a8c89

Answer 3

I had the same problem. For me even

php artisan

did not work.

I fixed it with a simple

cd /my/project/folder
composer update
php artisan key:generate

in the console.

Hope this helps.