Laravel PackageManifest.php: Undefined index: name

Question

I'm just trying to deploy my application and I just ran composer update on my server and I got the following error:

In PackageManifest.php line 122: Undefined index: name

How can I fix this issue?

Answer 1

As a temporary fix, try this, it worked for me, in the following file:

vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/PackageManifest.php 

Find line 116 and comment it:

$packages = json_decode($this->files->get($path), true); 

Add two new lines after the above commented line:

$installed = json_decode($this->files->get($path), true); $packages = $installed['packages'] ?? $installed;