Re: [Puppet Users] Installing up to date puppet on Ubuntu

felix
2012-05-22T12:07:21Z

ah ! thanks

before:

puppet:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.25.4-2ubuntu6.7
  Version table:
     0.25.4-2ubuntu6.7 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.25.4-2ubuntu6 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

after apt-get update

puppet:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.7.14-1puppetlabs1
  Version table:
     2.7.14-1puppetlabs1 0
        500 http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ lucid/main Packages
     2.7.13-1puppetlabs1 0
        500 http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ lucid/main Packages
     2.7.12-1puppetlabs1 0
        500 http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ lucid/main Packages
     2.7.11-1puppetlabs1 0
        500 http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ lucid/main Packages
     2.7.9-1puppetlabs3 0
        500 http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ lucid/main Packages
     2.7.9-1puppetlabs2 0
        500 http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ lucid/main Packages
     2.7.8-1puppetlabs1 0
        500 http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ lucid/main Packages
     2.7.7-1puppetlabs1 0
        500 http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ lucid/main Packages
     2.7.6-1puppetlabs1 0
        500 http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ lucid/main Packages
     2.6.14-1puppetlabs1 0
        500 http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ lucid/main Packages
     0.25.4-2ubuntu6.7 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.25.4-2ubuntu6 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages


though I think I might stick with the rubygems install as I have gotten
that to work now.

its the lucid version of rubygems that doesn''t fully work, so I
installed
that from source:

cd /usr/local/src
sudo wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.5.2.tgz
sudo tar -xzf rubygems-1.5.2.tgz
cd rubygems-1.5.2
sudo ruby setup.rb
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gem gem /usr/bin/gem1.8 1
sudo gem update --system

and now re-installing the gem seems to have installed puppet puppetd
puppetmaster etc in /usr/bin/

but maybe sticking with the package manager is better ?
it seems like ruby community doesn''t work so well with the standard
package
managers,
and gems are more up to date.

some of my machines are approaching end of life for lucid.

but then one of the goals of using puppet is to make it easy to jump to a
new machine.



On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:48:43 PM UTC+2, Martin Alfke
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 22.05.2012, at 13:08, felix wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Ubuntu Lucid has a very outdated puppet, 0.25.4
>
> according to:
>
>
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#for-debian-and-ubuntu
>
> I did this to "enable the repository":
>
> wget http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release_1.0-3_all.deb
> sudo dpkg -i puppetlabs-release_1.0-3_all.deb
>
> but this still does not result in installing an up to date puppet
>
> apt-get remove puppet
> apt-get install puppet
>
>
> Did you run
>    apt-get update
> after enabling the puppetlabs repository?
>
> What versions are shown when running
>   apt-cache policy puppet
> ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
>
>
> Setting up puppet (0.25.4-2ubuntu6.7) .
>
>
> I tried installing via gems:
>
> sudo gem install puppet
>
> which does give:
>
> Successfully installed puppet-2.7.14
>
> but /usr/bin/puppet -V still gives 0.25.4
>
> If I apt-get remove puppet then there is no longer a /usr/bin/puppet at
> all and there is no puppet on my path.
>
> I find something on a pastebin somewhere:
>
> /bin/ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/puppet /usr/bin/puppet
>
> but surely this can''t be the recommended way to install.
>
> or am I supposed to have /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/ on my path ?
>
> gems was installed with:
>
> apt-get install rubygems
>
> Obviously I''m not a ruby person, and I''ve just read the
rubygems docs
> regarding versions and why its not on the path. ("onerous")
>
> But how is puppet supposed to use it, what is recommended practice ?
> I don''t want it on MY path since it won''t be my user
running the puppet
> agent.
> Its already tedious installing puppet on each server in this fashion.
>
> thanks for any advice !
>
> http://pastebin.com/UGqdE7rL
>
>
>
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