Can't activate Soil in local dev area - manually installed Apache, PHP, MySQL

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Good afternoon,

First here is a little background with my development area. I have manually installed Apache, PHP and MySQL on my iMac. I have WordPress all up and running for a website that I am developing and I am just starting out with Sage for the first time.

I have WP-Cli installed, Bower, Gulp, Node.js etc.

After I placed the soil folder into the vendor/roots/ folder of the theme I ran the
composer require roots/soil 3.7.0 double checked the composer.json file and it is updated.

I then attempted to run the wp activate plugin soil and I get the following warning: The ‘soil’ plugin could not be found.

Any help, or a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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Did you check to make sure the plugin is in the correct directory? Do you see it in the WP admin?

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Hi Kalen,

Yeah I didn’t realize I didn’t copy the files into the plugins folder, I had them in the
wp-content/themes/sage/vendor/roots/

I thought that with composer you didn’t have to do that. So I am guessing that my composer is probably not setup properly.

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You’re not supposed to install WP plugins from the Sage theme folder.