Thanks for your help everybody!

I should have just done the RT*M thing from the start...

On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 3:39:45 PM UTC-5, Melissa Stone wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 1:29 PM Paul Trepanier <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
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>> Well, puppet docs say just run "yum install puppetserver" but that 
>> doesn't really work.  Everybody says you have to go to yum.puppetlabs.com 
>> and grab it from there and as I've experience, that' approach also does not 
>> appear to work.
>>
> "yum install puppetserver" should definitely work if you have the PC1 
> repos enabled. You'll also want a different service name. It's going to be 
> puppetserver.service instead of puppetmaster.service. Check out 
> https://docs.puppet.com/puppetserver/2.3/ for more information on running 
> puppetserver.
>
>>
>> I guess the final question is what version of the install guide actually 
>> works?  Troubled by how difficult this is and I say that being someone 
>> who's been in this business long enough to have to compile software in UNIX 
>> in order to get it to run - long before package managers...
>>
> You can also find installation instructions for puppetserver at 
> https://docs.puppet.com/puppetserver/2.3/install_from_packages.html. 
> These assume you already have the PC1 repos set up though.
>   
> https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/reference/install_linux.html is a 
> more detailed guide for linux specific installation including the set up of 
> the PC1 repos.
>
> I hope that helps!
>
>>
>> Paul
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>> On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 3:22:08 PM UTC-5, Christopher Wood wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 01:10:41PM -0700, Paul Trepanier wrote: 
>>> >    OK, tried your instructions (which only differed by "pc1" in the 
>>> distname) 
>>> >    and now /opt/puppetlabs is there. 
>>> > 
>>> >    What is the reason for this (I've found no less than 6 references 
>>> for 
>>> >    Centos 7 including a cbtnuggets.com training video that says to 
>>> use the 
>>> >    .rpm WITHOUT "pc1" in it). 
>>> >    What is the difference between the "pc1 and non-"pc1" variants? 
>>>
>>> The reason is that Puppet changed their packaging between major versions 
>>> 3 and 4. The pc1 is the All In One packaging, also known as Puppet 
>>> Collection 1. 
>>>
>>> https://puppet.com/blog/welcome-to-puppet-collections 
>>>
>>> Those links I pasted below have more details. 
>>>
>>> I think you'll benefit more from reading Puppet's own documentation than 
>>> what you get from third parties right now. 
>>>
>>> https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/ 
>>>
>>>
>>> >    Would have been nice if they explained this in README.txt... 
>>> >    Paul 
>>> > 
>>> >    On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 2:46:13 PM UTC-5, Christopher Wood 
>>> wrote: 
>>> > 
>>> >      On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:37:38PM -0700, Paul Trepanier wrote: 
>>> >      >    Hi Folks, 
>>> >      >    ..on CentOS 7 
>>> >      > 
>>> >      >    # rpm -ivh 
>>> >      [1]http://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm 
>>> >      >    # yum install puppet-server 
>>> >      >    # puppet resource package puppet-server ensure=latest 
>>> >      >    After doing this, there is NO /opt/puppetlabs directory. 
>>> > 
>>> >      I suspect you wanted the pc1 repositories and the puppetserver 
>>> package? 
>>> > 
>>> >      rpm -ivh 
>>> >      [2]
>>> http://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-el-7.noarch.rpm 
>>> >      yum clean all 
>>> >      yum install puppetserver 
>>> >      rpm -q puppetserver puppet-agent 
>>> >      ls -d /opt/puppetlabs 
>>> > 
>>> >      Using puppet-server would get you puppet 3.8.7 per 
>>> >      [3]http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/7/products/x86_64. 
>>> > 
>>> >      [4]
>>> https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/4.0/reference/release_notes.html 
>>> > 
>>> >      [5]https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/4.0/reference/whered_it_go.html 
>>> > 
>>> >      >    Any idea what the issue is?  All the docs say 
>>> /opt/puppetlabs 
>>> >      should be 
>>> >      >    there. 
>>> >      > 
>>> >      >    [root@puppetmaster puppet]# yum list installed | grep -i pup 
>>> >      >    facter.x86_64                          1:2.4.6-1.el7         
>>>       
>>> >          
>>> >      >    @puppetlabs-products 
>>> >      >    hiera.noarch                           1.3.4-1.el7           
>>>       
>>> >          
>>> >      >    @puppetlabs-products 
>>> >      >    puppet.noarch                          3.8.6-1.el7           
>>>       
>>> >          
>>> >      >    @puppetlabs-products 
>>> >      >    puppet-server.noarch                   3.8.6-1.el7           
>>>       
>>> >          
>>> >      >    @puppetlabs-products 
>>> >      >    puppetlabs-release.noarch              7-12                 
>>>         
>>> >        
>>> >      >     installed 
>>> >      >    ruby-augeas.x86_64                     0.4.1-3.el7           
>>>       
>>> >          
>>> >      >    @puppetlabs-deps 
>>> >      >    ruby-shadow.x86_64                     1:2.2.0-2.el7         
>>>       
>>> >          
>>> >      >    @puppetlabs-deps 
>>> >      >    Thanks! 
>>> >      >    Paul 
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>>> >    3. http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/7/products/x86_64 
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>>> >    5. https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/4.0/reference/whered_it_go.html 
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