Error installing sample data with 0.42.0-beta2

[fbrnc]

There's a dependency issue with the sample data:

• magento/sample-data exists in version 0.42.0-beta2 (and 0.42.0-beta1).
• magento/sample-data requires
  • "magento/framework": "~0.42.0-beta1",
  • "magento/magento-composer-installer": "*",
  • "magento/sample-data-media": "~0.42.0-beta1"
• magento/sample-data-media only exists in version 0.42.0-beta1

This combination seems to make it impossible to install the sample data:

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - The requested package magento/sample-data-media could not be found in any version, there may be a typo in the package name.
  Problem 2
    - Installation request for magento/sample-data 0.42.0.beta2 -> satisfiable by magento/sample-data[0.42.0-beta2].
    - magento/sample-data 0.42.0-beta2 requires magento/sample-data-media ~0.42.0-beta1 -> no matching package found.

[alankent]

You are correct. I did get it to work using a git clone to get the main code then added sample data afterwards, but I did this by adding dependencies to the root composer.json file. The exact sequence I used personally was:

$ git clone https://github.com/magento/magento2.git
$ cd magento2
$ git checkout tags/0.42.0-beta2
$ composer install
$ composer config repositories.foo composer http://packages.magento.com/
$ composer require magento/sample-data:0.42.0-beta2 magento/sample-data-media:0.42.0-beta1

Maybe explicitly adding the sample-data-meda:0.42.0-beta1 got around the problem.

The reason for not adding sample-data-media with beta2 is nothing changed but the package is very large. The issue however is why Composer did not find the correct versions. The tilde is meant to mean the specified version or larger (the last digit is allowed to be higher than the value specified). So I would have thought the dependencies specified were correct (~0.42.0-beta1 should match -beta2 as well). But it does not appear to work.

[yaronish]

According to http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v1.0/install-gde/install/sample-data.html
both packages(sample-data and sample-data-media) must be added to required section for sample data success installation

[verklov]

MAGETWO-32358

[hsuastegui]

For the 0.42.0-beta2 installation, I updated the composer.json with:
"magento/sample-data": "0.42.0-beta2",
"magento/sample-data-media": "0.42.0-beta1"
and it works

[verklov]

@fbrnc, did you try to use the recommendation by @yaronish? Was your issue resolved?

[fbrnc]

Problem seems to be resolved now. Sorry for not closing this ticket earlier.

[verklov]

No problem, @fbrnc. We are glad the issue is resolved :-)

[alihalabyah]

Is there an updated sample data for Version 0.74.0-beta2?

I'm getting the following:

- Installation request for magento/sample-data 0.42.0-beta1 -> satisfiable by magento/sample-data[0.42.0-beta1].

[joanhe]

@alihalabyah Yes. There is an updated sample data for Version 0.74.0-beta2. You can find available packages here: http://packages.magento.com/#magento/sample-data. You might need to update composer.json file to require the right version.