From the course: Building Laravel and Vue.js 2 Web Apps
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Configuring and booting the virtual machine
From the course: Building Laravel and Vue.js 2 Web Apps
Configuring and booting the virtual machine
- [Instructor] To finish setting up Homestead, next we need to clone the Homestead repository on GitHub because that contains scripts we need to configure our virtual machine and boot it. We can find that Git clone command in the next section of the Homestead documentation here. So I'm going to copy this, and bring it over to PowerShell, but if you're on Windows using the normal command prompt or PowerShell, don't put the tilde slash here because it will actually create a directory named tilde. Even though you can do cd tilde to change your user directory, that won't work. So I'm going to clone it like that, and next, we want to check out the latest stable version which we can find on the release page for that repo, and there's a link to it right here. So it looks like it's 7.19.2. I'm going to copy that which corresponds to a Git tag name, and by the way, you could also find that with Git tag on the command line. Let's cd to our cloned Homestead directory, and then do git checkout…
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