Update Chosen Module Via Composer in Drupal 8

I was tasked with the job of updating a Drupal site, as one often does when they work on Drupal sites. And I noticed that the Chosen module needed to be updated.

So I simply ran composer update drupal/chosen and nothing updated!

Then I ran composer require drupal/chosen. Which is what I do in composer update doesn’t work. But I got the following message:

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - drupal/chosen_lib 2.8.0 requires drupal/chosen 2.8.0 -> satisfiable by drupal/chosen[2.8.0] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - drupal/chosen_lib 2.8.0 requires drupal/chosen 2.8.0 -> satisfiable by drupal/chosen[2.8.0] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - drupal/chosen_lib 2.8.0 requires drupal/chosen 2.8.0 -> satisfiable by drupal/chosen[2.8.0] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.
    - Installation request for drupal/chosen_lib (locked at 2.8.0) -> satisfiable by drupal/chosen_lib[2.8.0].


Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json to its original content.

Solution

The solution is to run:

composer update drupal/chosen --with-dependencies

Take note of the --with-dependencies at the end of the composer command.

Hope this post saves someone an hour’s worth of debugging.