{"id":990,"date":"2020-05-07T09:13:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T09:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/07\/bypass-dependency-error-while-installing-extension-library-using-composer-in-magento-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:44:42","slug":"bypass-dependency-error-while-installing-extension-library-using-composer-in-magento-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/bypass-dependency-error-while-installing-extension-library-using-composer-in-magento-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Bypass Dependency Error While Installing an Extension\/Library Using Composer in Magento 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alert!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trying to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/install-magento-2-extensions-using-the-web-setup-wizard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">install a Magento 2 extension<\/a>&nbsp;or a library but bummed with an error?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the error you get when you don\u2019t respect the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/magento-2-system-requirements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Magento 2 system requirements<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It may happen that you do not have the required PHP version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can bypass the dependency error while installing an extension or library using composer in Magento 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check below to read how?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Method to bypass dependency error while installing an extension\/library using composer in Magento 2:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you run the below command, you\u2019ll face the error<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>composer require stripe\/stripe-php:^6<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, if you run the below command, you can avoid the error:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>composer require stripe\/stripe-php:^6 --ignore-platform-reqs<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So simple, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can bypass any PHP dependency error or similar errors using this trick!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/error-in-compat-php-while-installing-magento-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Error in Compat.php While Installing Magento 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do not forget to share the solution with fellow Magento developers via social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alert! Trying to&nbsp;install a Magento 2 extension&nbsp;or a library but bummed with an error? This is the error you get when you don\u2019t respect the&nbsp;Magento&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14929,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/14929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}