symfony new my-project

is supposed to install a basic working symfony app but it gives me a project that's almost empty, with only composer.json, composer.lock and a vendor directory with only symfony/flex.

composer.json does include symfony/framework-bundle, but the bundle is not in vendors.

Running composer install does not do anything, and doesn't give an error.

CodePudding user response：

Installing php-zip solved it for me (required by composer).

Looks like it's not installed by default on recent ubuntu php installations, and either composer or the symfony binary failed silently. (might be that I didn't get the error message when installing composer because it was installed with a different version of php that did have php-zip).

sudo apt install php-zip
# now install vendors
composer update