In this post, I’d like to show how to install Vagrant on Ubuntu 16.04. We may have 2 approaches to install Vagrant on Ubuntu.
- Use apt-get to install Vagrant from the repository of the distribution
- Download proper binary package from the Vagrant download page and install it normally.
We will try both of them.
Install Vagrant On Ubuntu 16.04
1. Use apt-get to install Vagrant
We will use apt-get to install Vagrant from distribution repository. Note that if we use this approach, we may not have the latest version of Vagrant as the second way.
1.1. Update the packages info from repositories
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sudo apt-get update |
1.2. Check the Vagrant package info (optional)
We can check for the information of the Vagrant package currently.
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apt-cache show vagrant |
The output should be similar to:
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Package: vagrant Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Installed-Size: 2466 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> Architecture: all Version: 1.8.1+dfsg-1 Depends: bsdtar, bundler, curl, openssh-client, ruby-childprocess (>= 0.3.7), ruby-erubis (>= 2.7.0), ruby-i18n (>= 0.6.0), ruby-listen, ruby-log4r (>= 1.1.9), ruby-net-scp (>= 1.1.0), ruby-net-sftp, ruby-net-ssh (>= 1:2.6.6), ruby-rest-client, ruby-nokogiri, ruby-rb-inotify, ruby Suggests: virtualbox (>= 4.0) Filename: pool/universe/v/vagrant/vagrant_1.8.1+dfsg-1_all.deb ... |
Note that the current version is 1.8.1+dfsg-1
1.3. Install Vagrant
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sudo apt-get install vagrant |
1.4. Verify the installation.
We can verify the installation by issue command to check the installed version of Vagrant.
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Vagrant 1.8.1 |
We have installed Vagrant 1.8.1 on our Ubuntu 16.04
2. Download Vagrant package and install it manually.
Vagrant download page provides the latest version of Vagrant. The current version is 1.8.5, both 32-bit and 64-bit. You should select proper version for your machine. Currently, I will download the 64-bit version. Note that we will download the package built for Debian.
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wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/1.8.5/vagrant_1.8.5_x86_64.deb |
After finishing the download, we can install it by:
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sudo dpkg -i vagrant_1.8.5_x86_64.deb |
Vagrant will be installed quickly after that. We can verify the installation by issue a command to check its version:
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vagrant -v |
The output on my terminal:
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Vagrant 1.8.5 |
We have installed Vagrant 1.8.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 successfully.
3. Uninstall Vagrant on Ubuntu 16.04
If you install Vagrant by using apt-get, you can issue below command to uninstall it.
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sudo apt-get remove vagrant |
Confirm “Y” when you are asked.
If you install Vagrant by using debian package, you can uninstall it by:
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sudo dpkg -r vagrant |
4. Conclusion
We have tried to install Vagrant on Ubuntu 16.04. We can select one of two approaches to do that. Note that both of 2 approaches are both simple. However, with the first one, we may not have desired version of Vagrant installed on our machine. For the second approaches, we can download exactly version we desire and install it. After installing Vagrant, you may need to get familiar with Vagrant command line interface. If you want to kind a of cheatsheet, you can refer to my previous post: Basic Vagrant Commands.
And the virtualbox???
Because is not easy like that.
cool, everything worked great!
It works perfectly!!! Thanks!!!!
Thanks amillion! Got it installed with success on Ubuntu Mint. Now to test vagrant up and vagrant ssh. THANKS