Composer update : Package "drupal/module_name" listed for update is not installed. Ignoring After hours of struggling to update Drupal with Composer (see my solution here), I have now some difficulties to update some modules. I was able to update with composer update drupal/bootstrap:3.11 --with-dependencies, but I could not update a module with composer update drupal/pathauto:1.1 --with-dependencies, which returns the following error.


  Package "drupal/pathauto:1.1" listed for update is not installed.
  Ignoring.
  Nothing to install or update.


The content of the composer.json file is the following.

{
    "name": "drupal/drupal",
    "description": "Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications.",
    "type": "project",
    "license": "GPL-2.0+",
    "require": {
        "composer/installers": "^1.0.24",
        "wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin": "^1.4",
        "drupal/views_slideshow": "^4.6",
        "drupal/metatag": "^1.4",
        "drush/drush": "dev-master",
        "drupal/core": "~8.5",
        "drupal/pathauto": "1.1",
        "drupal/bootstrap": "3.11",
        "drupal/token": "1.1"
    },
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "prefer-stable": true,
    "config": {
        "preferred-install": "dist",
        "autoloader-suffix": "Drupal8"
    },
    "extra": {
        "_readme": [
            "By default Drupal loads the autoloader from ./vendor/autoload.php.",
            "To change the autoloader you can edit ./autoload.php.",
            "This file specifies the packages.drupal.org repository.",
            "You can read more about this composer repository at:",
            "https://www.drupal.org/node/2718229"
        ],
        "merge-plugin": {
            "include": [
                "core/composer.json"
            ],
            "recurse": false,
            "replace": false,
            "merge-extra": false
        },
        "installer-paths": {
            "core": ["type:drupal-core"],
            "modules/contrib/{$name}": ["type:drupal-module"],
            "profiles/contrib/{$name}": ["type:drupal-profile"],
            "themes/contrib/{$name}": ["type:drupal-theme"],
            "drush/contrib/{$name}": ["type:drupal-drush"],
            "modules/custom/{$name}": ["type:drupal-custom-module"],
            "themes/custom/{$name}": ["type:drupal-custom-theme"]
        }
    },
    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "Drupal\\Core\\Composer\\": "core/lib/Drupal/Core/Composer"
        }
    },
    "scripts": {
        "pre-autoload-dump": "Drupal\\Core\\Composer\\Composer::preAutoloadDump",
        "post-autoload-dump": [
          "Drupal\\Core\\Composer\\Composer::ensureHtaccess"
        ],
        "post-package-install": "Drupal\\Core\\Composer\\Composer::vendorTestCodeCleanup",
        "post-package-update": "Drupal\\Core\\Composer\\Composer::vendorTestCodeCleanup"
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "https://packages.drupal.org/8"
        }
    ]
}


I tried with composer update drupal/token, but it gives the following error.


  Nothing to install or update


composer install drupal/token gives the following error.


  Invalid argument drupal/token.
  Use "composer require drupal/token" instead to add packages to your composer.json.


Instead, composer require drupal/token gives this error


  Using version ^1.1 for drupal/token
  ./composer.json has been updated
  Loading composer repositories with package information
  Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
  Nothing to install or update


I checked the composer.lock file and its content is the following.

    "name": "drupal/token",
    "version": "1.1.0",
    "source": {
        "type": "git",
        "url": "https://git.drupal.org/project/token",
        "reference": "8.x-1.1"
    },


So, it seems thats it is correct, but the module page still shows it as requiring to be updated.



How can I solve this and install these modules?
I found what was the issue in my case. I post my solution. Even if it is specific to my issue, maybe it could help other users.

I didn’t install these  Drupal 8 modules. The developer who installed them used Drush (he should have used Composer). So I had the same modules installed twice, in /module and in modules/contrib I’ve deleted modules previously installed with drush  in /module and run composer update. That fixed the problem.