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 ### Installing Homestead
 
-#### Option 1 - Manually Via Git (No Local PHP)
+PHP and [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) are required to install Homestead.
 
-If you do not want to install PHP on your local machine, you may install Homestead manually by simply cloning the repository. Consider cloning the repository into a `Homestead` folder within your "home" directory, as the Homestead box will serve as the host to all of your Laravel (and PHP) projects:
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-	git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git Homestead
-
-Once you have installed the Homestead CLI tool, run the `bash init.sh` command to create the `Homestead.yaml` configuration file:
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-	bash init.sh
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-The `Homestead.yaml` file will be placed in your `~/.homestead` directory.
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-#### Option 2 - With Composer + PHP Tool
+#### Composer + PHP Tool
 
 Once the box has been added to your Vagrant installation, you are ready to install the Homestead CLI tool using the Composer `global` command: