Thread:User talk:AKSHA/SMW 2.2 User Install Experience

Good day to the forum:

SMW is wonderful. This is just feedback I hope you will find useful.

I am trying to install SMW 2.2 over MediaWiki 1.25. My OS is Windows 8. I cannot complete the following instructions

I am relying on the instructions at: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation/Windows_environment

4 In a terminal screen cd to the root of your wiki and execute the following commands: For the latest stable SMW release use: composer require mediawiki/semantic-media-wiki "~2.1"

Following this instruction produces the following error message:

./composer.json has been updated

[RuntimeException] The lock file does not contain require-dev information, run install with th e --no-dev option or run update to install those packages.

require [--dev] [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--no-progress] [--no-update] [--update-no-dev] [--update-with-dependencies] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--sort- packages] [packages1] ... [packagesN]

To continue the install I run the following: composer require mediawiki/semantic-media-wiki "~2.2" --update-no-dev

From here the installation goes smoothly.