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-# -*- mode: ruby -*-
-# vi: set ft=ruby :
-
-Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
-  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/xenial64"
-
-  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
-    v.memory = 4096
-    v.cpus = 2
-  end
-
-  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
-
-    # add docker repo
-    curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | apt-key add -
-    add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu xenial stable"
-
-    # and golang 1.9 support
-    # official repo doesn't have race detection runtime...
-    #add-apt-repository ppa:gophers/archive
-    add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
-
-    # install base requirements
-    apt-get update
-    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends wget curl jq \
-        make shellcheck bsdmainutils psmisc 
-    apt-get install -y golang-1.9-go docker-ce
-    apt-get install -y language-pack-en
-
-    # cleanup
-    apt-get autoremove -y
-
-    # needed for docker
-    usermod -a -G docker vagrant
-
-    # use "EOF" not EOF to avoid variable substitution of $PATH
-    echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/go-1.9/bin:/home/vagrant/go/bin' >> /home/vagrant/.bash_profile
-    echo 'export GOPATH=/home/vagrant/go' >> /home/vagrant/.bash_profile
-    echo 'export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8' >> /home/vagrant/.bash_profile
-
-    mkdir -p /home/vagrant/go/bin
-    mkdir -p /home/vagrant/go/src/github.com/cosmos
-    ln -s /vagrant /home/vagrant/go/src/github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk
-
-    chown -R vagrant:vagrant /home/vagrant/go
-    chown vagrant:vagrant /home/vagrant/.bash_profile
-
-    su - vagrant -c 'source /home/vagrant/.bash_profile'
-    su - vagrant -c 'cd /home/vagrant/go/src/github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk && make tools'
-  SHELL
-end