Debian jessie and puppet packages

[John Gateley]

Hello,

I'm a complete novice at puppet, trying to set up a couple of debian systems with puppet on them.

With a brand new install of Debian 8 (jessie), I have used both the default packages from Debian, and the packages from puppetlabs (available after installing the puppetlabs-release-jessie.deb package).

With both puppet-master and puppet, the "facter rubysitedir" returns a non-existent directory (/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/2.1.0). I think it should return /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/.

With puppet, the command "puppet resource service" fails with:

Error: Could not run: Execution of '/bin/systemctl show -pSourcePath autovt@' returned 1: Failed to get properties: Unit name autovt@.service is not valid.

Does Debian 8 support puppet via packages only? Or do I need to install from source?

I also set up Debian 7, and that worked, but it was with puppet 2.7.23, which is quite old (both Puppet 3 and 4 are now available).

Google search didn't help with this.

Would I have more luck with Ubuntu?

Thank you, and my apologies for the novice questions.

John

[Kylo Ginsberg]

Hi John,

As you found, the default debian packages lag, so I'd definitely recommend using the puppetlabs packages.

Two other things to note:

* the package names of interest have changed: you'll want to install 'puppet-agent' and 'puppetserver' (not 'puppet' and 'puppet-master', which it sounds like you may have done)

* the package install does *not* update your path, but it puts puppet/facter/hiera/puppetserver/mco in /opt/puppetlabs/bin

There are instructions on using the puppetlabs repos here: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html

Hope that helps!

Kylo

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[John Gateley]

Hi Kylo,

Thank you for the reply, your suggestion fixed my issue.

I was following (outdated?) instructions here:

https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/install_puppet/install_debian_ubuntu.html?_ga=1.64264812.215601368.1448036026

and they were referencing the old package names.

Thanks again for the quick reply.

John

[warron.french]

John hello, have you heard about the Puppet labs training VM?