Homestead attempting to re-download box

Question

I manually downloaded laravel homestead box from atlas and the version i downloaded is 0.2.6 of laravel/homestead.

Then i git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git Homestead.

After doing the other necessary configurations when i am trying to run vagrant up from Homestead directory, it is starting to download the laravel/homestead box again with version 0.4.0.

My internet is slow and i cannot afford to download the box again. Is there any way i can tell Homestead to use the existing homestead box already exist in my ~/.vagrant.d directory.

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this:

Locate this homestead.rb at your drive, mine is at C:\Users\SuperComputer\Homestead\scripts\homestead.rb

Edit it using text editor.

try find this word syntax:

config.vm.box_version = settings["version"] ||= ">= 0"

change it to

config.vm.box_version = settings["version"] ||= "= 0.2.6"

Answer 2

Another solution for this as shown https://abbasharoon.me/laravel-homestead-windows-extremely-easy/ and here http://laravel.io/forum/05-06-2015-how-to-download-vagrant-box-manually is to add the metadata_url file. Without that file, Vagrant will try to download the homestead even after installing the manually downloaded homestead box. To add the metadata_url, follow the following steps:

1. Download the metadata file from here
2. Move the metadata_url file to C://Users/YourUserName/.vagrant.d/boxes/laravel-VAGRANTSLASH-homestead.
3. In case you have configured a different directory for Vagrant’s storage then you will need to find the boxes directory there Inside the laravel-VAGRANTSLASH-homestead directory, rename the directory “0” to the current version which is currently 0.5.0