Received errors while installing Laravel, how to know whether I need to install it again?

Question

I am installing Laravel on my local environment (MacBook Pro) using Composer.

I used the following command to install Laravel:

php composer.phar create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist

towards to the end of the installation, I noticed some errors like:

Mcrypt PHP extension required.
Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-install-cmd event returned with an error



  [RuntimeException]  
  Error Output:

Screenshot attached here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nhqq2aecpkd8ynt/Screenshot%202014-06-02%2018.34.24.png

Is it OK to run Laravel or should I need to do something else?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 02 '14 at 13:14

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You must enable mcrypt. Run phpinfo() to check its status, if it's not enabled, go into php.ini and enable it.

answered Jun 02 '14 at 13:14

Ben

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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You need to install mcrypt.

In order to do this, please refer to this question: Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension

edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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answered Jun 02 '14 at 13:59

Patrick Reck

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I don't need to install Mcrypt, as it's already there. After some steps provided with that answer, I able to run `php artisan` command of Laravel. – Debiprasad Jun 10 '14 at 12:58

Received errors while installing Laravel, how to know whether I need to install it again?

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