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 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 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.
Now go to the Configuring Salt page.