diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
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+# -*- mode: ruby -*-
+# vi: set ft=ruby :
+
+Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
+  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty32"
+  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8000, host: 8000
+  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/mayan-edms-repository"
+  config.vm.provision :shell, :path => "contrib/scripts/install/development.sh", privileged: false
+end
+
diff --git a/contrib/scripts/install/development.sh b/contrib/scripts/install/development.sh
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+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get -y upgrade
+sudo apt-get -y install git-core python-virtualenv gcc python-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev tesseract-ocr poppler-utils unpaper redis-server
+git clone /mayan-edms-repository/ /home/vagrant/mayan-edms
+cd /home/vagrant/mayan-edms
+git checkout development
+virtualenv venv
+source venv/bin/activate
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+pip install redis
+./manage.py initialsetup