diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index b3b9a1125..529db0890 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -138,11 +138,11 @@ def configureLinuxProvisioners(vmCfg)
 
 	vmCfg.vm.provision "shell",
 		privileged: true,
-		path: './scripts/vagrant-linux-protoc.sh'
+		path: './scripts/vagrant-linux-priv-ui.sh'
 
 	vmCfg.vm.provision "shell",
-		privileged: false,
-		path: './scripts/vagrant-linux-priv-ui.sh'
+		privileged: true,
+		path: './scripts/vagrant-linux-priv-protoc.sh'
 
 	return vmCfg
 end
diff --git a/scripts/vagrant-linux-priv-protoc.sh b/scripts/vagrant-linux-priv-protoc.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..6e5ab7715
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/vagrant-linux-priv-protoc.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Make sure you grab the latest version
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -o errexit
+
+VERSION=3.6.1
+DOWNLOAD=https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v${VERSION}/protoc-${VERSION}-linux-x86_64.zip
+
+function install_protoc() {
+    if [[ -e /usr/local/bin/protoc ]] ; then
+        if [ "${VERSION}" = "$(protoc  --version | cut -d ' ' -f 2)" ] ; then
+            return
+        fi
+    fi
+
+    # Download
+    wget -q -O /tmp/protoc.zip ${DOWNLOAD}
+
+    # Unzip
+    unzip /tmp/protoc.zip -d /tmp/protoc3
+
+    # Move protoc to /usr/local/bin/
+    sudo mv /tmp/protoc3/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
+
+    # Move protoc3/include to /usr/local/include/
+    sudo mv /tmp/protoc3/include/* /usr/local/include/
+
+    # Link
+    sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/protoc /usr/bin/protoc
+}
+
+install_protoc
diff --git a/scripts/vagrant-linux-protoc.sh b/scripts/vagrant-linux-protoc.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 7d0a52249..000000000
--- a/scripts/vagrant-linux-protoc.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# set up protoc so that we can use it for protobuf generation
-PROTOC_ZIP=protoc-3.6.1-linux-x86_64.zip
-curl -OL https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v3.6.1/$PROTOC_ZIP
-sudo unzip -o $PROTOC_ZIP -d /usr/local bin/protoc
-rm -f $PROTOC_ZIP
-