You can edit the `.env` file to chose which software's you want to be installed in your environment. You can always refer to the `docker-compose.yml` file to see how those variables are been used.
Depending on the host's operating system you may need to change the value given to `COMPOSE_FILE`. When you are running Laradock on Mac OS the correct file separator to use is `:`. When running Laradock from a Windows environment multiple files must be separated with `;`.
2 - Build the enviroment and run it using `docker-compose`
