Ubuntu Installation

Add repository

The latest packages for Ubuntu are published in the saltstack PPA. If you have the add-apt-repository utility, you can add the repository and import the key in one step:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saltstack/salt

In addition to the main repository, there are secondary repositories for each individual major release. These repositories receive security and point releases but will not upgrade to any subsequent major release. There are currently four available repos: salt16, salt17, salt2014-1, salt2014-7. For example to follow 2014.7.x releases:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saltstack/salt2014-7

add-apt-repository: command not found?

The add-apt-repository command is not always present on Ubuntu systems. This can be fixed by installing python-software-properties:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

The following may be required as well:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Note that since Ubuntu 12.10 (Raring Ringtail), add-apt-repository is found in the software-properties-common package, and is part of the base install. Thus, add-apt-repository should be able to be used out-of-the-box to add the PPA.

Alternately, manually add the repository and import the PPA key with these commands:

echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/saltstack/salt/ubuntu `lsb_release -sc` main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/saltstack.list
wget -q -O- "http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4759FA960E27C0A6" | sudo apt-key add -

After adding the repository, update the package management database:

sudo 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:

sudo apt-get install salt-master
sudo apt-get install salt-minion
sudo apt-get install salt-syndic

Some core components are packaged separately in the Ubuntu repositories. These should be installed as well: salt-cloud, salt-ssh, salt-api

sudo apt-get install salt-cloud
sudo apt-get install salt-ssh
sudo apt-get install salt-api

ZeroMQ 4

ZeroMQ 4 is available by default for Ubuntu 14.04 and newer. However, for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, starting with Salt version 2014.7.5, ZeroMQ 4 is included with the Salt installation package and nothing additional needs to be done.

Post-installation tasks

Now go to the Configuring Salt page.