Vagrant Installation - How to do?

wmcig

Hi there,

I have installed Virtualbox. For a new project I need to install vagrant. This is missing at Solus Software Center. I have learned to download the binary file from the vagrant website (https://discuss.getsol.us/d/6155-vagrant-missing/2).

But I do not know how to use this downloaded file, because it is no binary file and I can not do anything with it on Solus.

Here you can find the link to binary file of vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads

Please help!

synth-ruiner

wmcig you'll have to give it execute permissions if it doesn't have them already (chmod +x /path/to/vagrant in terminal). if you want to run it from anywhere on your system you'll need to add it to your PATH environment variable too.

by the way - unless you've switched to the LTS kernel, make sure you installed virtualbox-current and not virtualbox - the latter is the LTS version, confusingly.

JoshStrobl

Personally, just download the binary from Vagrant (they provide it via a zip, just unzip it through your file manager, should be straightforward) and throw it in /usr/bin/. Like @synth-ruiner mentioned, make sure it has the executable bit. That's what I did (for using alongside nomad) because it is otherwise too involved to maintain (we used to have it in the repo) and its countless ruby deps.

synth-ruiner

JoshStrobl and throw it in /usr/bin/

I tend to do this too, instead of manually adding to $PATH, but was hesitant to recommend it in case it was bad practice or something 😅

JoshStrobl

synth-ruiner To be honest, I do it out of laziness and portability (don't have to think about making sure I add a path modification to my zshrc). There is a billion ways to do it, including adding it locally and appending it to PATH as you mentioned, there isn't a singular right or wrong way, just whatever works best for you.

wmcig

Thank you for your answers.

I throw it into /usr/bin folder. I doing "chmod +x" to the vagrant path (/usr/bin/vagrant).

What can I do now to execute the file?

Please see screenshot how the "logo" of file looks like now!

synth-ruiner

wmcig it's a command-line program, so you have to use it in a terminal - for example:

cd path/to/where/you/want/the/box
vagrant init box-name # (e.g. generic/alpine315)
vagrant up

you can skip the init step if you already have a Vagrantfile to provision the VM with. and you can find boxes here: https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/

once it's booted you can run vagrant ssh, or open Virtualbox, to interact with it.