Installing specific laravel 5 version with composer create-project

Question

Today I try to install specific laravel version with composer create-project laravel/laravel=5.1.8 your-project-name --prefer-dist, because some of the plugins have

Answer 1

you can do:

composer create-project laravel/laravel myproject --prefer-dist v5.1.8

To see available versions, you can visit its packagist page (lower right):

https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/framework

UPDATED:

There is no actually a tag for v5.1.8 for package laravel/laravel, Your issue is the framework(core) of laravel..

What you can do to solve it is to edit your composer.json:

"require": {
        "php": ">=5.5.9",
        "laravel/framework": "5.1.8"
    },

And do composer update "laravel/framework"