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 A Vagrantfile and set of puppet manifests/modules to set up the UCC vending
 suite of software in a Virtualbox VM for development.
 
+## Usage
+
+(first time)
+
+Make sure you Vagrant install is at a current version
+
+$ vagrant box add ubuntu/trusty32
+
+(normal)
+
+$ vagrant up
+
 
 ## Author