After waiting a long time and playing unsuccessfuly with apt, I was able to extract puppet-tools.list from the .deb using dpkg-deb and install it. to help the next person with this problem,
# Puppet Tools bionic Repository deb http://apt.puppet.com bionic puppet-tools On Monday, July 20, 2020 at 2:00:29 PM UTC-7 Steve Redlich wrote: > I'm not able to setup the puppet apt repository on ubuntu 18.04 > > > root@lynx:/tmp# dpkg -i puppet-tools-release-bionic.deb > (Reading database ... 239282 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack puppet-tools-release-bionic.deb ... > Unpacking puppet-tools-release (1.0.0-4bionic) over (1.0.0-4bionic) ... > Setting up puppet-tools-release (1.0.0-4bionic) ... > chmod: cannot access '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppet-tools.list': No such > file or directory > > root@lynx:/tmp# touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppet-tools.list > root@lynx:/tmp# dpkg -i puppet-tools-release-bionic.deb > (Reading database ... 239282 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack puppet-tools-release-bionic.deb ... > Unpacking puppet-tools-release (1.0.0-4bionic) over (1.0.0-4bionic) ... > Setting up puppet-tools-release (1.0.0-4bionic) ... > root@lynx:/tmp# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppet-tools.list > root@lynx:/tmp# > (note empty file) > I would appreciate it if someone could reply with a contents of the > puppet-tools.list apt repository listing so I can get started with puppet. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/cc44d63e-f1af-49b9-8073-49cfaf2ea06dn%40googlegroups.com.
