zsh: command not found: homestead

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Try display your path

echo $PATH

Can see if it can pick it up with

which homestead

If that doesn't return anything, it can't find it in your PATH settings.

which -- locate a program file in the user's path

Hey @bashy,

Thanks for the reply. I did

 echo $PATH

Result:

 ~/.composer/vendor/bin/

Which:

 which homestead
 homestead not found

Your path should have other paths like /usr/local/bin etc.

Did you replace over the original path value?

I did not replace anything. At least I don't think so.

My MacBook is new so all that I installed is composer in order to install the Laravel stuff. I am trying to keep the other development stuff in the VMs.

I rebooted today. Now when I run

 echo $PATH

I get

 /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

Instead of this

export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin/"

I believe you really wanted this - append to path you already have

PATH=~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH

@HRcc thanks!! it worked!

But is it for the current terminal session, right? I have to put it in the .zshrc file right?

Yes, keep it in .zshrc :)

Hi,

Macbook Pro, shell oh-my-zsh my .zprofile =>
export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"
source .zprofile end terminal session and try :
homestead

return :
zsh: command not found: homestead

echo $PATH:
/usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin

pls help me!

My Solution:
sudo nano .zshrc
export PATH=/Users/my_user_name/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH
source .zshrc

If anyone is having this problem; I found another solution. It looks like the ~ isn't being expanded so you need to replace it with $HOME. So the full string is $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin

I just ran into this issue today and I will confirm the above solution: Use $HOME instead of tilda (~).

I can also confirm I had the same issue as Xiteer and jrtashjian - once I used $HOME instead of the tilda my issue was resolved.

The solution is to edit the file that is located

composer.json "~/.composer/"

to

"laravel/homestead":"dev-master"

Paste the following in your .zprofile or .bash_profile: export PATH = ~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH

And the reload your profile using the following: source ~/.zprofile

I couldn't get it to work either so I added an alias to my .aliases file.

alias homestead='~/.composer/vendor/bin/homestead'

If you don't have a .aliases file, create one and uncomment or add the line . ~/.aliases in your .zshrc file

I've got homestead working, but I'm running into a strange problem on my Mac. Every time I reboot or I close my shell window homestead alias seems to be unknown again when I open up my shell again. I can run "source ~/.bash_profile" again so that the alias is "picked" again and is back to normal. So no biggy here.

But it's a bit annoying. Anyone had this before?

Solved I used @jrtashjian solution $HOME instead ( ~ )
1.- export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"
then source ~/.zshrc echo $PATH => not results :(
2.- again ..
export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"
echo $PATH => works! /Users/davidguardia/.composer/vendor/bin:/usr/local/........................

I solve my problem with this: PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:${PATH}

Source: Stack Overflow

alias homestead='~/.composer/vendor/bin/homestead'

alias hs='homestead'

works great for me.

$ hs suspend

;)

For some reason zsh does not seem to like the tilde for referring to the users directory.

If you do not the absolute path then it didn't work, adding the full path including /Users/my_username/.composer/vendor/bin immediately fixed the problem for me

@HRcc you saved my day

After this:

composer global require "laravel/homestead=~2.0"

I added this:

export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

And it works with:

homestead

I use Homestead Box with Windows and the path is different so try this:

export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Or even better when you install Laravel with

composer global require "laravel/installer"

Use the directory from this message to set the PATH to:

Changed current directory to /home/vagrant/.config/composer