Clarification needed for composer install –prefer-dist

[apprentia]

Hello,

I am running through the set-up process in the book and when I use :

composer install –prefer-dist

I am getting the following message :

Invalid argument –prefer-dist. Use "composer require –prefer-dist" instead to add packages to your composer.json.

The site is up and running but the theme has not been built as a result.

If I use composer require –prefer-dist I am prompted to choose from a list of profiles but nothing to do with the book, I think.

[imaaxa]

Try composer require --prefer-dist. The editing software used for the book replaced the double hyphen(--) with a different character, (–).

[lussoluca]

Exactly, this has been reported here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modernizing-Drupal-10-Theme-Development/blob/main/ERRATA.md#chapter-1