Installing PUPPET on Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora

To get the latest releses of Puppet, you will need to add the EPEL repository.

 

root@host# rpm - Uvh http://dmownload.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

 

(EPEL is a volunteer-based community from the Fedora project to create a repo of high-quality add-on packages for RHEL and clones)

Further details can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#hotouse

 

 

To Install the PUPPET MASTER on Redhat based system

 

1. Install pre-requisit library

 

      root@host# yum install ruby ruby-libs ruby-shadow

 

2a. Install Puppet Master (Server)

 

      root@host# yum install puppet puppet-server facter

 

 

2.b. Install Puppet Agent(Client)

       root@host# yum install puppet facter