What's the cleanest way to remove Homestead and Vagrant from a Windows system?

Question

I followed the instructions in Laravel docs to install Vagrant and Homestead on Windows 10, but now I\'ve decided to move the whole development stuff to another dedicated server

Answer 1

Virtual Machine

Remove the homestead VM by running

vagrant box remove laravel/homestead

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Homestead

If you installed Homestead via composer with the following command:

composer global require laravel/homestead

run the opposite to remove it:

composer remove laravel/homestead

This will remove the .composer/vendor/laravel directory, including its 'homestead' subdirectory. The 'global' keyword is not required.

On a Mac or Linux system, the Homestead configuration files can be removed by deleting the '~/.homestead' directory. You may need to hunt a little to find the directory on your Windows system. Don't worry too much if you can't find it; the directory is small and innocuous.

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Composer

Composer is usually installed as a Windows application; check Add/Remove programs (or the Windows 10 equivalent) to uninstall it.

If you installed Composer manually and it does not appear in your list of installed apps, simply remove the 'composer' binary and the configuration directory (~/.composer on Mac/Linux systems).

Answer 2

Run the command vagrant box remove laravel/homestead --provider=virtualbox --all to avoid having to specify a version if multiple are on the machine.

Answer 3

Step 1: Get a list of all installed boxes using

$ vagrant box list

Step 2: Run vagrant remove command, specify the box name, version, and provider for example

$ vagrant box remove laravel/homestead --box-version=0.4.4 --provider=virtualbox