[Bug]: Could not find package maatwebsite/excel

[xiaoxiaolav]

Is the bug applicable and reproducable to the latest version of the package and hasn't it been reported before?

• Yes, it's still reproducable

What version of Laravel Excel are you using?

3.1

What version of Laravel are you using?

8.75

What version of PHP are you using?

7.4

Describe your issue

i've been trying to install this package but i keep getting this error:

Could not find package maatwebsite/excel. It was however found via repository search, which indicates a consistency issue with the repository.

is there any work around for this?

How can the issue be reproduced?

composer require maatwebsite/excel

What should be the expected behaviour?

package should be installed

additional info:

composer require maatwebsite/excel:^3.1 --ignore-platform-req=true
./composer.json has been updated
Running composer update maatwebsite/excel
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

Problem 1
- Root composer.json requires maatwebsite/excel, it could not be found in any version, there may be a typo in the package name.

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://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#minimum-stability for more details.
• It's a private package and you forgot to add a custom repository to find it

[patrickbrouwers]

Cannot preproduce this issue on Laravel 8.75.0 with PHP 7.4 (nor on any other versions)