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 ## Quick Start
 
+Package dependencies: Vagrant requires `bsdtar` to be available on your system PATH to run successfully.
+
 For the quick-start, we'll bring up a development machine on
 [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/) because it is free and works
 on all major platforms. Vagrant can, however, work with almost any
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 ## Contributing to Vagrant
 
-Package dependencies: Vagrant requires `bsdtar` to be available on your system PATH to run tests successfully.
-
 Once your Vagrant bundle is installed from Git repository, you can run the test suite with:
 
     bundle exec rake