Cannot update yii2 via composer bower-asset/jquery could not be found

I was updating my yii2 via composer then reverted back to the old beta version.

Here is the error on my composer:

Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - The requested package bower-asset/jquery could not be found in any version, there may be a typ
o in the package name.

Potential causes:
 - A typo in the package name
 - The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your minimum-stability setti
ng
   see <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/composer-dev/_g3ASeIFlrc/discussion> for more details.

Read <http://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md> for further common problems.

Tried searching for bower-asset/jquery at packagist but it is not found.

Thanks for the help :)

Solution 1:

Finally fixed it, just followed the steps on the UPGRADE.md doc

If you are using Composer to upgrade Yii, you should run the following command first (once for all) to install the composer-asset-plugin:

composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:^1.2.0"

(See http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-start-installation.html#installing-from-composer for latest version.)

You may also need to add the following code to your project's composer.json file :

"extra": {
    "asset-installer-paths": {
        "npm-asset-library": "vendor/npm",
        "bower-asset-library": "vendor/bower"
    }
}

Hopes this helps :)

Solution 2:

For me helps to remove folder ~/.composer and execute command:

php composer.phar global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:1.*"

Then just run again

php composer.phar update

Solution 3:

Found a cleaner solution. Just add following repository in your composer.json file

"repositories": [
 {
  "type": "composer",
  "url": "https://asset-packagist.org"
 }
]

and watch the magic

Solution 4:

If you don't want to use fxp/composer-asset-plugin then all you have to do is to follow these simple instructions from Yii2 documentation.

Using asset-packagist repository

This way will satisfy requirements of the majority of projects, that need NPM or Bower packages.

Note: Since 2.0.13 both Basic and Advanced application templates are pre-configured to use asset-packagist by default, so you can skip this section.

In the composer.json of your project, add the following lines:

"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "composer",
        "url": "https://asset-packagist.org"
    }
]

Adjust @npm and @bower aliases in you application configuration:

$config = [
    ...
    'aliases' => [
        '@bower' => '@vendor/bower-asset',
        '@npm'   => '@vendor/npm-asset',
    ],
    ...
];

Visit asset-packagist.org to know, how it works.

Solution 5:

If you don't need the update for bower-asset, you can require yidas/yii2-composer-bower-skip before yiisoft/yii2. in composer.json file:

"require": {
    "php": ">=5.4.0",
    "yidas/yii2-composer-bower-skip": "~2.0.0",
    "yiisoft/yii2": "~2.0.5",
    "yiisoft/yii2-bootstrap": "~2.0.0"
}

After that, you can update Composer smoothly without bower-asset.

See https://github.com/yidas/yii2-composer-bower-skip