failed to open stream for composer.lock

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The project im installing has no lock file and Im doing a composer install on wp-rocket a Wordpress package during a build process and I'm getting an error when it attempts to write a composer.lock file

Error: file_put_contents(./composer.lock): Failed to open stream: Permission denied
In JsonFile.php line 186:

file_put_contents(./composer.lock): Failed to open stream: Permission denie
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install [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--prefer-install PREFER-INSTALL] [--dry-run] [--download-only] [--dev] [--no-suggest] [--no-dev] [--no-autoloader] [--no-progress] [--no-install] [--audit] [--audit-format AUDIT-FORMAT] [-v|vv|vvv|--verbose] [-o|--optimize-autoloader] [-a|--classmap-authoritative] [--apcu-autoloader] [--apcu-autoloader-prefix APCU-AUTOLOADER-PREFIX] [--ignore-platform-req IGNORE-PLATFORM-REQ] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--] [...]
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.