How to install a specific version of package using Composer?

Question

I am trying to install a specific version of a package using Composer. I tried composer install and composer require but they are installing the la

Answer 1

Suppose you want to install Laravel Collective. It's currently at version 6.x but you want version 5.8. You can run the following command:

composer require "laravelcollective/html":"^5.8.0"

A good example is shown here in the documentation: https://laravelcollective.com/docs/5.5/html