Laravel has awesome documentation but still I Faced problem while installation.Below are the Just three commands which can help you to run Laravel in your mac book or Linux systems like ubuntu and any other distribution.
$ cd ~
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ ./composer.phar global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"
$ ./composer.phar create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist projectDirectoryName
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