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 Ubuntu Lucid has a very outdated puppet, 0.25.4 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 > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/PjFsf6tHxkoJ. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
