Behat+Mink+Selenium installation

Question

I'm getting error below when trying to install Behat+Mink+Selenium. What could be the solution?

php composer.phar install

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  Problem 1
    - Installation request for symfony/framework-standard-edition 2.4.x-dev -> satisfiable by symfony/framework-standard-edition[2.4.x-dev].
    - symfony/framework-standard-edition 2.4.x-dev requires behat/behat 2.4.*@stable -> no matching package found.

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Composer.json:

{
    "name": "symfony/framework-standard-edition",
    "license": "MIT",
    "type": "project",
    "description": "The \"Symfony Standard Edition\" distribution",
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "autoload": {
        "psr-0": { "": "src/" }
    },
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.3.3",
        "symfony/symfony": "~2.4",
        "doctrine/orm": "~2.2,>=2.2.3",
        "doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "~1.2",
        "twig/extensions": "~1.0",
        "symfony/assetic-bundle": "~2.3",
        "symfony/swiftmailer-bundle": "~2.3",
        "symfony/monolog-bundle": "~2.4",
        "sensio/distribution-bundle": "~2.3",
        "sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "~3.0",
        "sensio/generator-bundle": "~2.3",
        "incenteev/composer-parameter-handler": "~2.0",
        "behat/behat": "2.4.*@stable",
        "behat/mink": "1.4.*@stable",
        "behat/mink-extension": "*",
        "behat/mink-goutte-driver": "*",
        "behat/mink-selenium2-driver": "*",
        "behat/symfony2-extension": "*",
        "behat/mink-browserkit-driver":  "*",
        "behat/mink-sahi-driver": "*",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.*"
    },
    "scripts": {
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "Incenteev\\ParameterHandler\\ScriptHandler::buildParameters",
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::buildBootstrap",
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::clearCache",
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::installAssets",
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::installRequirementsFile"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "Incenteev\\ParameterHandler\\ScriptHandler::buildParameters",
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::buildBootstrap",
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::clearCache",
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::installAssets",
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::installRequirementsFile"
        ]
    },
    "config": {
        "bin-dir": "bin/"
    },
    "extra": {
        "symfony-app-dir": "app",
        "symfony-web-dir": "web",
        "incenteev-parameters": {
            "file": "app/config/parameters.yml"
        },
        "branch-alias": {
            "dev-master": "2.4-dev"
        }
    }
}

I'm following these two blogs to install it:

• Installing, configuring and running Behat on Symfony2 with Mink and Selenium Installing Behat, Mink and Selenium2 for Symfony2

Answer 1

IMO, you have registered too many packages. For example, behat is a dependency of the symfony2-extension. So, just need to require the symfony2-extension and behat will be required :) The problem when you require everything explicitly is you need to check if every packages constraints can work together on packagist (which can becomes a pain)...

For a Symfony 2.4 project, I would use the following packages:

"require-dev": {
    "behat/symfony2-extension": "~1.1",
    "behat/mink-extension": "~1.3",
    "behat/mink-selenium2-driver": "~1.1",
    "behat/mink-goutte-driver": "~1.0",
}