Starting with laravel on ubuntu

Final Update
I finally solved it, what happened was that the laravel folder was read protected, what i had to do was to set chmod 755 -R laravel and then chmod -R o+w storage and voila i had laravel up and running, thanks to everybody that contributed.

Yep, but it's a pain.

Most of the time it's because you have to use the full path to the phantomjs executable.

Also, make sure phantomjs is properly installed on your server too, like, does it work if you just run the phantomjs command in a terminal?

Got fixed after setting path for composer vendors.So the correct step which worked is,

Download laravel installer: composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"

Setup PATH: export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Then run command : laravel new project-name or sudo laravel new project-name

For mac,

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"' > ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Ubuntu 16.04 with latest laravel installer

Install composer if not exists,

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '55d6ead61b29c7bdee5cccfb50076874187bd9f21f65d8991d46ec5cc90518f447387fb9f76ebae1fbbacf329e583e30') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Install laravel installer,

composer global require "laravel/installer"

Edit environment config,

nano .bashrc

Then add,

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin"

Then reload path config,

source ~/.bashrc

Ubuntu 17.04 and 17.10:

export PATH="~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Ubuntu 18.04

export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"