Problem Running Composer Install In A Laravel Project On Google Compute Engine (Debian 9)

I am running into a basic problem that I really can't get over with.

I have created a new VM Instance on Google Compute Engine to run my Laravel development WebApp. After pulling the development from my GitHub I fail to run the composer install command...

Here is the error message displayed after running "composer install" inside the project:

Debian version : 9 (codename Stretch) Apache 2 version : 2.4.25 PHP version : 7.3.12 Composer version : 1.2.2

Thanks for your help guys.

Seems like your composer was installed using debian package manager. Run which composer and add it to your question detail.

It's recommended that you uninstall your composer and install it using the following commands;

cd ~
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer -o composer-setup.php
sudo php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

Then run composer install if it's a development environment or composer install --no-dev if it's a production machine.