In order to provide more assistance, can you please be more specific about the ways in which you did not have success, the directories that were missing, or the issues you identified on the main branch that you believe to be related to your problem? Please feel free to include as much terminal (command-line) output as you can, the more the better.
This project uses a vagrant box with the Ubuntu version Precise 64-bit (12.04), so regardless of what your host OS is, the precise64 guest will be provisioned accordingly and the app will run on it. Since the vagrant box is fixed to precise64, we do not update to the latest Ubuntu.
This project has been tested with a number of host OSes, including but not limited to Ubuntu 14.04, OSX, Debian 7, Microsoft Windows 7, and Microsoft Windows 8. I believe it should run on most platforms that support vagrant and virtualbox.
Thanks,
Steve