Could not open input file: artisan

Question

When trying to create a new laravel project, The following error appears on the CLI:

Could not open input file: artisan

Script php artisan clear-c

Answer 1

I checked out an existing Laravel project, which did not have this script. Even a find / -name 'artisan' produced no results. The solution turned out to be simple, if a bit weird:

curl -L 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laravel/laravel/v4.2.11/artisan' > artisan

You probably want to choose a tagged version that matches your installed version of Laravel.