Debian Installation¶

Currently the latest packages for Debian Old Stable, Stable, and Unstable (Squeeze, Wheezy, and Sid) are published in our (saltstack.com) Debian repository.

Configure Apt¶

Squeeze (Old Old Stable)¶

For squeeze, you will need to enable the Debian backports repository as well as the debian.saltstack.com repository. To do so, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list or a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d:

deb http://debian.saltstack.com/debian squeeze-saltstack main
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main

Wheezy (Old Stable)¶

For wheezy, the following line is needed in either /etc/apt/sources.list or a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d:

deb http://debian.saltstack.com/debian wheezy-saltstack main

Jessie (Stable)¶

For jessie, the following line is needed in either /etc/apt/sources.list or a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d:

deb http://debian.saltstack.com/debian jessie-saltstack main

Sid (Unstable)¶

For sid, the following line is needed in either /etc/apt/sources.list or a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d:

deb http://debian.saltstack.com/debian unstable main

Import the repository key.¶

You will need to import the key used for signing.

wget -q -O- "http://debian.saltstack.com/debian-salt-team-joehealy.gpg.key" | apt-key add -

Note

You can optionally verify the key integrity with sha512sum using the public key signature shown here. E.g:

echo "b702969447140d5553e31e9701be13ca11cc0a7ed5fe2b30acb8491567560ee62f834772b5095d735dfcecb2384a5c1a20045f52861c417f50b68dd5ff4660e6  debian-salt-team-joehealy.gpg.key" | sha512sum -c

Update the package database¶

apt-get update

Install packages¶

Install the Salt master, minion, or syndic from the repository with the apt-get command. These examples each install one daemon, but more than one package name may be given at a time:

apt-get install salt-master

apt-get install salt-minion

apt-get install salt-syndic

Post-installation tasks¶

Now, go to the Configuring Salt page.