"Command not invoked properly" Setting up laravel homestead with Vagrant

Question

I am trying to set up a a vagrant laravel homestead box. I have both vagrant and virtualbox installed on my Xubuntu 14.04 machine. To do this I'm running the following command

user@home: $ vagrant box add laravel/homestead

Then I get the following error

This command was not invoked properly. The help for this command is
available below.

Usage: vagrant box add <name> <url> [--provider provider] [-h]

I'm doing this exactly how the laravel and vagrant documentation shows. Why is this not working? Do I need a url?

What is the Vagrant version you are using? vagrant --version Older Vagrant versions doesn't support this syntax and need to be told specific URL to look for instead of using Vagrantcloud.com — m1keil

m1keil m1keil · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-02T15:50:13

Your syntax is correct for versions 1.5+. If you older Vagrant you need go to https://vagrantcloud.com/<BOX_NAME>/versions and copy the full link to the latest active version of you box. (<BOX_NAME> in your case is laravel/homestead)

Then you can download like this:

vagrant box add 'laravel/homestead' https://vagrantcloud.com/laravel/homestead/version/9/provider/virtualbox.box --provider virtualbox

However I strongly advice to update your Vagrant for the latest one.

"Command not invoked properly" Setting up laravel homestead with Vagrant

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