title: "homestead command not found" even after Installing laravel homestead in Linux mint 18
body: <p>I am trying to install laravel homestead in linux mint 18. I have installed vagrant and virtual box from follwing URLs successfully:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads" rel="nofollow">https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads</a></p>
    
    <p><a href="https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html</a></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have installed homestead with following command</p>
  
  <pre><code>composer global require "laravel/homestead=~2.0"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i have installed composer successfully. when i give composer command in terminal it shows me composer options so it is working correctly. 
  i have also set the PATH file with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>export PATH=~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If i run echo $PATH it gives me following output:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>/home/ahnaf/.composer/vendor/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>if i run homestead it gives me. </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>homestead command not found.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>but if i restart the terminal and run echo $PATH then the composer path is not there any more. I have browsed through laravel docs , laracasts and in google.Everywhere i found the solution supposed to be to set the PATH which i did, but my problem is still present. dnt know what to do. is there any linux user who can help me to set the homestead?  </p>