title: Confusing step in the Laravel Homestead installation process?
body: <p>I'm going through the Laravel Homestead setup, but a particular instruction seems to be completely out of context/unexplained. I'm not at all familiar with composer, having only used npm for package management in the past.</p>
  <p>In the 'Installing Homestead' section, under <strong>With Composer + PHP Tool</strong> it reads:</p>
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  <blockquote>
  <p>Once the box has been added to your Vagrant installation, you are ready to install the Homestead CLI tool using the Composer global command:</p>
  <p><code>composer global require &quot;laravel/homestead=~2.0&quot;</code></p>
  <p><strong>Make sure to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your PATH so the homestead executable is found when you run the homestead command in your terminal.</strong></p>
  </blockquote>
  <p><a href="http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/homestead" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/homestead</a></p>
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  <p>Emphasis mine. What does this mean? What <code>~/.composer/vendor/bin</code> directory? What <code>PATH</code>? Feels like it's missing a step!</p>