According to https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/homestead I can install Laravel Homestead by doing vagrant box add laravel/homestead
. Installing by cloning the git repo is another way but it's not the only way listed nor is it even the first method listed.
Anyway, the next section of the documentation is Configuring Homestead. It talks about homestead.yaml a lot but idk where that file lives. Maybe there are additional steps in the install process that https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/homestead neglects to mention?