How to get a PHP-Laravel homestead vagrant box up?

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I've set up a Virtualbox Ubuntu and installed Vagrant on it with 

apt-get install vagrant

, nothing else.

According to this: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/homestead I've tried:

vagrant box add laravel/homestead

after this did not work I've used:

git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git ~/Homestead

and

bash init.sh

This seemed to work fine.
So I went into the folder where my code (and a Vagrant file) is and just tried

vagrant box add

(because I don't find a .box file or something like this... do I need one??)

Now I get the error:

Message: LoadError: cannot load such file -- /media/sf_contractManager/project1/backend/vendor/laravel/homestead/scripts/homestead.rb

What am I doing wrong here?
As I understand Vagrant I should get a complete environment/vm out of the Vagrant box or? No need to install php, mysql, etc. inside the Vagrant box (or outside on Virtualbox level). Is this correct? How can I bring the Vagrant box up?

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So I went into the folder where my code (and a vagrant file) is and just tryed

vagrant box add

(because I don't find a .box file or something like this... do I need one??)

You don't need to do this, because you've already added a box on the previous step. Box is being handled on the Vagrant/VirtualBox level, not the your project level/Laravel level.

Hierarchy:

VirtualBox
|-Vagrant
  |-Vagrant box (environment for your project)
  | |-your project
  | |-another project
  |-another Vagrant box
    |-another project

To bring things up, you have to go to the folder where your Homestead.yaml is located and run vagrant up.

Remember to run init.sh before vagrant up.

No need to install php, mysql, etc. inside the vagrant box (or outside on virtualbox level). Is this correct?

You are right. But you have to specify all the "tools" you'll need to use with your project. For example, certain PHP/MySQL version.

For example, the fresh way to install (tested by myself on 18.04):

  1. Install Vagrant and VirtualBox using the preferred way (apt-get or using an archive or something else). How to install from .deb file. Just my opinion: get a source archive and isntall manually. This way you can control the version of the software you're installing. And you'll have some experience as well.
  2. cd ~ (go to Home directory)
  3. vagrant box add laravel/homestead
  4. git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git ~/Homestead
  5. cd ~/Homestead
  6. git checkout release
  7. bash init.sh or ./init.sh. Make sure that bash script executable. Or use
sudo chmod +x init.sh

to make it executable.

  1. Configure Homestead.yaml with providers you need.
  2. vagrant up (while being in Homestead directory).
  3. If your project is a website, you might want to access it from your host machine. So you have to edit /etc/hosts file with 192.168.10.10 mywebiste.local or so. You can find IP in the homestead.yaml.

You can find more info in the docs.