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Hello, what have you tried those 4 days? Did you try to install VirtualBox (from here) as the message above says?

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Thank you for the prompt response.

The things I have tried in the past 4 days weren't very well thought out. Mostly just trying to reinstall everything several times. At one point I tried to make a docker image after ubuntu 14.04. (because docker said that it didn't have an image to make a container out of or something like that.) I tried running the docker Daemon from the terminal. I spent a good amount of time trying to interpret the vagrantfile, but I don't know Ruby; only Python. I learned some vagrant commands, and watched several tutorials on Docker and Vagrant; and tried to use those to help solve the problem. But that actually was more frustrating because the few resources that I could find on vagrant + docker all promised that everything would just work, right out of the box. I also think I actually had virtualbox installed at some point, but uninstalled it? I definitely had something that was supposed to go with vagrant, but was not docker. I might be confusing an installed virtualbox with vagrant for Portia (which was in a tutorial appearing in the Packtpub Web Scraping with Python book. Which I had just completed before starting on your book.) Basically, I just banged on the keyboard for 4 days hoping that by hitting it hard enough that I might get vagrant to work. Reinstalling the OS was also a desperate attempted solution, but I needed to update my Ubuntu from 14.04 anyways.

The one thing I actually did not try was installing Virtualbox. The reason was because I did not have success with Portia when trying to install Virtualbox for the other tutorial, and I also thought that Virtualbox would possibly replace or somehow override Docker. I assumed that Docker, and Virtualbox were alternatives to the same function.

Well, Installing virtualbox seems to have solved the problem. vagrant up is now performing the downloading step. Thank you :)

[lookfwd]

Awesome! :)

Basically, I just banged on the keyboard for 4 days hoping that by hitting it hard enough that I might get vagrant to work.

:) I know the feeling... I've spent long time going like "I WILL MAKE THIS WORK" (actually I do it right now with some other technology :) ) Vagrant/docker take time to master. If they don't "just work", I think, it's best to ask for help. I will update github's files to reflect this. But I seriously believe your way is the path to learning. Unfortunately a little bit painful now and then... but fun at the same time.

Anyway - I'm glad it worked! :) Cheers!