Magento 2 Install extension but not upgrade Magento via composer

Question

So if I understand it right the php bin/magento setup:upgrade is used for both, upgrading magento 2 and also for installing extensions via composer.

How can I just install the extension without updating the Magento 2 version? Is this even possible?

Answer 1

No. That command will not update Magento 2 version. That command will only install extension in your Magento 2 setup. To update Magento 2 version, composer commands are used.

Answer 2

You must change the version on the composer file and you must run the composer install and php bin/magento setup:upgrade

Answer 3

php bin/magento setup:upgrade does not install extension from composer. For it, you should use standart composer comands like:

composer require : - add new data to composer json

or

composer install or composer update - if you add extension in composer.json with your hands

This is a good turtorial:

http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.2/comp-mgr/install-extensions.html

Answer 4

For upgrading magento version using composer, just replace 2.2.2 with your version in composer.json file. And run composer update

  "require": {
    "magento/product-community-edition": "2.2.2",
},

For installing extension, run

php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:di:compile

Answer 5

For upgrade magento version you have to run following command :

composer require magento/product-community-edition 2.2.2 --no-update
composer update

But for Update the database schema and data you have to use :

php bin/magento setup:upgrad

so if you run upgrade command it will not upgrade magento version its only install your extension.

For more info check link : http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/comp-mgr/cli/cli-upgrade.html

Thanks