Homestead: Mirrors/Torrents for Homestead

[Angelo8828]

I don't know where I can tell this request so I thought to write it here. I know that you guys have already very difficult work so I'm very sorry if I want to request this thing.

Can you guys make available current and future developments of Laravel homestead box as mirrors/torrents. I am a web developer in a country where the speed of the internet is very abysmal and annoying as *. vagrant box add laravel/homestead is slow as * in my place where 100-200 kB/s is the normal thing (considering I must still share that snail internet speed with my office colleagues).

Regards with love,

Angelo :+1:

[svpernova09]

Not sure about mirrors, but I'll look into getting a torrent up.

[lucasctd]

@Angelo8828 You can download it manually thorugh this link
It's actually better than using terminal (cmd).

You should add your laravel box as below:
vagrant box add laravel/homestead (path to downloaded file)

You can find more information about how to download homestead manually here.

Hope it helps you. :D

[svpernova09]

Mentioned adding a torrent to Taylor, not sure if this is something we'll do or not. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Angelo8828]

Thanks guys for the reply!

@lucasctd, will try to that method. Thanks.

[jimmerioles]

It would really be a great help if somebody would make their copy of latest homestead box available for torrent, it's so slow using the cmd and even downloading it directly through the direct download link gives me 100kb/s.

[svpernova09]

If someone could point me to a non shady tracker where we could do this I'll investigate further. ATM I don't want to rub my own tracker for 1 torrent and I don't want to use this as the primary download method.

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[lucasctd]

@jimmerioles I will upload it on my OneDrive account. Its download speed may be faster than 100kbps.
Does it help you?

[lucasctd]

@jimmerioles Here it's
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AuGGKC4Y6efKj4VRY0Eod4J6_QzXHg
Btw, I got more than 100kbps (see below) downloading through hashcorp's website.

[raniesantos]

@lucasctd after downloading this (v3.0.0 for virtualbox) where do I put it?

NOTE: I want to update an existing homestead 2.1.0 box, not add it for the first time.

I found this folder ~/VirtualBox VMs/homestead-7 that contains

• box-disk001.vmdk
• homestead-7.vbox ... and
• homestead-7.vbox-prev

None of them seem to match the .box extension, what now?

[svpernova09]

You need to run vagrant box add laravel/homestead boxname.box --box-version VALUE where boxname.box is the filename of the .box file and VALUE is the version of the box.

[raniesantos]

@svpernova09 I already have an existing 2.1.0 Homestead, I want to update the existing one, not add a new one.

[svpernova09]

Updating a box creates a new version and downloads a new .box file. It doesn't alter any existing versions of .box files you've already added.

[raniesantos]

@svpernova09 so by executing that command it would actually "update" my current homestead box and it won't create a second one?

[svpernova09]

it will create a new version of the laravel/homestead box. But you'll need to specify the version of that box

[jimmerioles]

@lucasctd thanks man!

[lucasctd]

@jimmerioles yw. :D

[fide1]

They changed there servers to https://app.vagrantup.com/
Manually dowload here.
https://app.vagrantup.com/laravel/boxes/homestead/versions/5.2.0/providers/virtualbox.box

[huenisys]

anything new for version 6?