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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Getting Started with Laravel Installing Laravel Homestead

Posted by Richard Otabil
Richard Otabil
Courses Plus Student 268 Points

I am stuck on vagrant up . after a long download it says ....

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\HP>vagrant box add laravel/homestead ==> box: Loading metadata for box 'laravel/homestead' box: URL: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/laravel/homestead This box can work with multiple providers! The providers that it can work with are listed below. Please review the list and choose the provider you will be working with.

1) virtualbox 2) vmware_desktop

Enter your choice: 1 ==> box: Adding box 'laravel/homestead' (v0.2.5) for provider: virtualbox box: Downloading: https://vagrantcloud.com/laravel/boxes/homestead/versions/ 0.2.5/providers/virtualbox.box ==> box: Box download is resuming from prior download progress box: Progress: 100% (Rate: 212k/s, Estimated time remaining: --:--:--) The box failed to unpackage properly. Please verify that the box file you're trying to add is not corrupted and try again. The output from attempting to unpackage (if any):

x ./box-disk1.vmdk: gzip decompression failed bsdtar.EXE: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

3 Answers

James Home
James Home
12,011 Points
James Home
James Home
12,011 Points

I hate to be negative but I'd just give up using Windows for web development and use Linux/OSX.

Richard Otabil
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Richard Otabil
Courses Plus Student 268 Points
Richard Otabil
Richard Otabil
Courses Plus Student 268 Points

Maybe if you buy me one , i will . :)

Anyway , i found a way to fix it by downloading the basic_bsdtar.exe from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Extension/bsdtar/ and rename it to bsdtar.exe and place it in C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\embedded\gnuwin32\bin\

But there's another problem . i cant find my homestead.yirm file . been working on this installation since 2 days ago . am going to just give up and sleep. sigh

Richard Otabil
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Richard Otabil
Courses Plus Student 268 Points
Richard Otabil
Richard Otabil
Courses Plus Student 268 Points

nah mate . i was joking . i dont want ubuntu . i would bring my imac at work to the house and send this crap there. i dont use my mac at work that much . just sending of mails as am mostly shooting or directing or editing on a workstation. programing is for fun , for now.