Installation with sample data failing

[jameswithers]

Following installation guide here: http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v1.0/install-gde/install/install-overview.html.

I get through to http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v1.0/install-gde/install/sample-data.html:

$ composer update
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - Installation request for magento/sample-data 0.42.0-beta1 -> satisfiable by magento/sample-data[0.42.0-beta1].
    - magento/sample-data 0.42.0-beta1 requires magento/framework 0.42.0-beta1 -> no matching package found.

Potential causes:
 - A typo in the package name
 - The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your minimum-stability setting
   see <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/composer-dev/_g3ASeIFlrc/discussion> for more details.

Read <http://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md> for further common problems.

[mazhalai]

@jameswithers Can you please confirm that you do you have

"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "composer",
        "url": "http://packages.magento.com/"
    }
],

in composer.json

[jameswithers]

@mazhalai Yes I did (magento/sample-data 0.42.0-beta1 -> satisfiable by magento/sample-data[0.42.0-beta1].).

It fails on magento/sample-data 0.42.0-beta1 requires magento/framework 0.42.0-beta1 -> no matching package found..

The composer.json available at http://packages.magento.com/#!/magento/sample-data shows:

{
    "name": "magento/sample-data",
    "description": "Sample Data scripts",
    "version": "0.42.0-beta1",
    "require": {
        "magento/framework": "0.42.0-beta1",
        "magento/magento-composer-installer": "*",
        "magento/sample-data-media": "0.42.0-beta1"
...

The problem is that in the composer.json for Magento2, it shows:

{
    "name": "magento/project-community-edition",
    "description": "Magento project (Community Edition)",
    "type": "project",
    "version": "0.42.0-beta2",
    "license": [
        "OSL-3.0",
        "AFL-3.0"
    ],
...

I cannot seem to locate the repo for packages.magento.com

[jameswithers]

I found a workaround here: http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://mage2.ru/topic/12/&prev=search.

Same root cause though: different version in packages to main project repo.

[maksek]

Hi @jameswithers, thanks for reporting the issue. It is confirmed and we are working on it.

[maksek]

@jameswithers, we have updated sample data. Please check now.

[jameswithers]

@maksek Takes a long time to install, but it works now.

[magento-engcom-team]

Hi @jameswithers. Thank you for your report.
The issue has been fixed in magento/graphql-ce#953 by @pmclain in 2.3-develop branch
Related commit(s):

• 17ea0876fb2092231924bbdc0aee7846a4f59429

The fix will be available with the upcoming 2.3.4 release.