Comment by tabbott

Yeah I'm hoping that the community will do some work on simplifying this -- our focus on the installation process side was to make there be at least one installation process for the two use cases that works completely automatically.

FWIW at Zulip we usually did our development environment on our laptop not inside a VM; it's not that hard to do, but the nice thing about the Vagrant setup (written as part of the Hack Week project) is that it's for people with no familiarity with the software to get to a running environment.

It should be feasible to make a Debian package for it that plays nicely; as you can see most of the dependencies are already packaged.

Everything scripts/lib/install downloads via https has a valid cert; I suspect the issue may be that we should bundle the verification chain.

I'd love to see notes on whatever issues you encounter in a github issue or sent to the mailing list so we can make things smoother.