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Question

I am trying to install a new laravel instance with the following command:

composer create-project laravel/larevel authii --prefer-dist

But

Answer 1

The fix for me was found here: https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md#operation-timed-out-ipv6-issues-.

I had to disable IPv6 on my network interfaces. After disabling that, composer worked fine.