On recent versions of Ubuntu (Xenial, Yakkety) and Debian (Testing, Unstable) vagrant 1.8.x is available which AFAICT should be fine
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ production setup costs about TODO.
## Prerequisites
-* **A recent version of Vagrant**, like 1.6.3 (NOTE: `apt-get` is
-too old, download the newest `deb` directly). See
+* **A recent version of Vagrant**, like 1.6.3. See
[here](https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html) for downloads
* **Vagrant AWS Plugin** from [here](https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws)