[puppet] Installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL5 RHEL6

Ran into a bit of a problem initially installing 'puppet', the configuration management tool on RedHat. The installation was pretty straight forward, but if you are not using RedHat on a daily bases you may get thrown off.

I was aware enough to at least have EPEL installed on the system as indicated on EPEL article by Redhat folks

Install epel-release rpm package according to your RHEL version as shown below # rpm -Uvh http://mirrors.xmission.com/fedora/epel/<RHEL version>/<arch>/epel-release-<version>.noarch.rpm Links to these rpm packages can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F Comment There are many packages included with Fedora that are not included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In effort to make certain, high quality packages from Fedora available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Fedora community has created the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) program. The EPEL program is a volunteer-run community program. New packages are suggested and added to the program by volunteers. Packages in the EPEL program are not supported by Red Hat.