Why I can't use “laravel” command inside Homestead VM

Question

I am new to laravel.

So, I have successfully installed and configured Homestead on my Windows machine.

Then I wanted to install Laravel. As I said, I am on Windows, so obviously I don't want to install php, composer and all that stuff on it, that's why I just hit "vagrant ssh" to get inside Homestead and then tried to install laravel following the official documention

composer global require "laravel/installer"

Then I tried to run "laravel" command, but no luck - command not found. I decided, that I had to edit PATH variable, but then I found out that there is no " ~/.composer/vendor/bin " folder at all (not it inside /home/vagrant or /root). and after I got stuck. What do I do wrong, guys?

PS " composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog " works fine, but I want to find out how to make "laravel" command work

Answer 1

I don't believe there is a laravel command-line executable.

Are you trying to run artisan commands?

docs

Answer 2

when you run composer global require "laravel/installer" what did it say ? it should output

Changed current directory to /home/vagrant/.config/composer where laravel will be installed

so you can just add /home/vagrant/config/composer/vendor/bin (note config vs what you say ~/.composer/vendor/bin ) in your PATH variable and laravel command will work