with composer create-project laravel/laravel project-name failing with an error.

Generating optimized autoload files
> IlluminateFoundationComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump
> @php artisan package:discover --ansi

PHP Warning:  require(/Documents/project-name/vendor/autoload.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Documents/project-name/artisan on line 9

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Failed opening required '/Documents/project-name/vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /Documents/project-name/artisan:9

Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in /Documents/project-name/artisan on line 9

Script @php artisan package:discover --ansi handling the post-autoload-dump event returned with error code 255

I ensured I had permission for user groups and read/write access.

PHP version 8.3

Composer 2.7.4

Ubuntu system and Apache Server configured