Laravel 5.2 quickstart instructions downloads incompatible 5.1 code

I'm new to Laravel, and tried to start with the 5.2 "quickstart" instructions at http://ift.tt/1Kv7foF . It told me to do this early on:

git clone http://ift.tt/1OZbfEl quickstart
cd quickstart
composer install
php artisan migrate

But just a little farther along the instructions, all kinds of failures came up. I've tried on multiple machines, OSs, etc; never could get the quickstart to work. Then I bought a book (that shall remain nameless), which had far more detailed and very different instructions, but didn't work either. I tried with and without homestead; with apache or not; and all kinds of other variations.

Needless to say, this has not encouraged confidence in Laravel. Searches here and in general, found other similar issues but no answers.

So: why don't the instructions work? Especially the "official" ones, and especially the ones for the most basic "getting started" process?

Or perhaps better: Does anyone know of instructions that do work?

from Newest questions tagged laravel-5 - Stack Overflow http://ift.tt/1ZSuCFa
via IFTTT