[Bug]: Cannot install the package

[cool-energie]

Is the bug applicable and reproducable to the latest version of the package and hasn't it been reported before?

• Yes, it's still reproducable

What version of Laravel Excel are you using?

3.1

What version of Laravel are you using?

8.83.27

What version of PHP are you using?

7.4.33

Describe your issue

When i execute the command "composer require maatwebsite/excel:^3.1", I get this output:

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The "3.1" constraint for "maatwebsite/excel" appears too strict and will likely not match what you want. See https://getcomposer.org/constraints
./composer.json has been updated
Running composer update maatwebsite/excel
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

Problem 1
- Root composer.json requires maatwebsite/excel 3.1 -> satisfiable by maatwebsite/excel[3.1.0].
- maatwebsite/excel 3.1.0 requires illuminate/support ^5.5 -> found illuminate/support[v5.5.0, ..., 5.8.x-dev] but these were not loaded, likely because it conflicts with another require.

Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json and ./composer.lock to their original content.

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If i execute "composer require maatwebsite/excel" i get the 1.1 version and i want the 3.1 version.

How can the issue be reproduced?

I have only copy the command from the documentation and execute it in the console.

What should be the expected behaviour?

Installation command work without issues

[patrickbrouwers]

Make sure you read the requirements in the docs. You are most likely missing a php extension that is required

[cool-energie]

@patrickbrouwers thank you for your reply. That is what i get when i run "php -i":

=====================
...

gd

GD Support => enabled
GD Version => bundled (2.1.0 compatible)
FreeType Support => enabled
FreeType Linkage => with freetype
FreeType Version => 2.9.1
GIF Read Support => enabled
GIF Create Support => enabled
JPEG Support => enabled
libJPEG Version => 9 compatible
PNG Support => enabled
libPNG Version => 1.6.34
WBMP Support => enabled
XPM Support => enabled
libXpm Version => 30512
XBM Support => enabled
WebP Support => enabled
BMP Support => enabled
TGA Read Support => enabled

Directive => Local Value => Master Value
gd.jpeg_ignore_warning => 1 => 1

...

iconv

iconv support => enabled
iconv implementation => "libiconv"
iconv library version => 1.16

Directive => Local Value => Master Value
iconv.input_encoding => no value => no value
iconv.internal_encoding => no value => no value
iconv.output_encoding => no value => no value

...

SimpleXML

SimpleXML support => enabled
Schema support => enabled

...

xml

XML Support => active
XML Namespace Support => active
libxml2 Version => 2.9.10
...

xmlreader

XMLReader => enabled

...

zip

Zip => enabled
Zip version => 1.15.6
Libzip headers version => 1.7.1
Libzip library version => 1.7.1

zlib

ZLib Support => enabled
Stream Wrapper => compress.zlib://
Stream Filter => zlib.inflate, zlib.deflate
Compiled Version => 1.2.12
Linked Version => 1.2.12

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All required extensions are enabled.

[sdon2]

@cool-energie Same issue here! Found any solutions?

[Dev-rahul]

same issue with me, let me know if you have found a fix @cool-energie

[cool-energie]

@sdon2 , @Dev-rahul I didn't found a fix yet sorry.

[sdon2]

Found that v3.1 requires PHP 8.0. Its working fine with my PHP 8.2 environment flawlessly.