PHP fatal memory error installing Laravel cashier

Question

I tried to install laravel cashier with the comand composer require laravel/cashier but after a while I've got this error

PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1610612736 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4096 bytes) in phar://C:/composer/composer.phar/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/RuleWatchGraph.php on line 52

how can put I more memory available for this process, or solve this error?

Edit: my laptop memory is 8Gb

https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md#memory-limit-errors — aynber, Aug 27 '20 at 14:23
If you have a lot of dependencies, you might need to remove some, run `composer update`, then add them back, update again, then try to add the new library — aynber, Aug 27 '20 at 14:25

Sergio Rinaudo · Answer 1 · 2020-08-27T14:29:59.133

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You should increase your memory_limit directive, from php.ini or add this line in your script

ini_set("memory_limit", "256M");

EDIT Since it is composer, you can only edit php.ini directive. Anyway 1.5gb to install a lib is strange ( I though initially it was 160mb, my fault ) and it is not recommended to increase memory limit to GBs, try also to update your composer.

edited Aug 27 '20 at 14:29

answered Aug 27 '20 at 14:21

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1) This is composer, not straight PHP, and 2) it's running out at 1.5G so 256M is way too low – aynber Aug 27 '20 at 14:22
@aynber, yes you are right, it is 1.5G, I initially though it was 160mb, I've edited my answer. – Sergio Rinaudo Aug 27 '20 at 14:31

PHP fatal memory error installing Laravel cashier

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