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报错如下

[RuntimeException]                                                                                                          
  Could not load package mews/purifier in https://packagist.phpcomposer.com: [UnexpectedValueException] Could not parse vers  
  ion constraint ~4.*: Invalid version string "~4.*"                                                                          

  [UnexpectedValueException]                                              
  Could not parse version constraint ~4.*: Invalid version string "~4.*" 

原因是当前composr版本过低，解决办法如下：

#升级composer
sudo composer self-update

提示如下：

Updating to version 1.10.13 (stable channel).
   Downloading (100%)         
Use composer self-update --rollback to return to version 1.8.5

这里您可以看到可以使用如下命令回退版本：

composer self-update --rollback