diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 6f2ba1ae1..529db0890 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -138,14 +138,10 @@ def configureLinuxProvisioners(vmCfg)
 
 	vmCfg.vm.provision "shell",
 		privileged: true,
-		path: './scripts/vagrant-linux-protoc.sh'
-
-	vmCfg.vm.provision "shell",
-		privileged: false,
 		path: './scripts/vagrant-linux-priv-ui.sh'
 
 	vmCfg.vm.provision "shell",
-		privileged: false,
+		privileged: true,
 		path: './scripts/vagrant-linux-priv-protoc.sh'
 
 	return vmCfg
diff --git a/scripts/vagrant-linux-protoc.sh b/scripts/vagrant-linux-protoc.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 7d0a52249..000000000
--- a/scripts/vagrant-linux-protoc.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# set up protoc so that we can use it for protobuf generation
-PROTOC_ZIP=protoc-3.6.1-linux-x86_64.zip
-curl -OL https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v3.6.1/$PROTOC_ZIP
-sudo unzip -o $PROTOC_ZIP -d /usr/local bin/protoc
-rm -f $PROTOC_ZIP
-