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diff --git a/documentation/documentation/installation.page b/documentation/documentation/installation.page index b4e484e90..4f4d3ba60 100644 --- a/documentation/documentation/installation.page +++ b/documentation/documentation/installation.page @@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ You will need to install Puppet on all machines that will use it, including both clients and servers. There are [packages][] available for some platforms, but for the rest -you will have to install using the [tarball][] or [GEMs][]. +you will have to install using the [tarball][] or [GEMs][]. Install +instructions do not cover installing packages, since it is assumed you know +how to retrieve and install packages for your specific platform. ## Prerequisites @@ -46,20 +48,28 @@ tested against in most cases and it's most likely to work correctly. If you feel the particular need to build it manually, you can get the source from [the Ruby site](http://ruby-lang.org/). - #### Red Hat -If you are building on Red Hat (at least on version 3), you +Puppet and Facter are now available in Fedora Extras, thanks to David +Lutterkort at Red Hat. Fedora users should be able to retrieve them via yum. + +If you are building ruby on Red Hat (at least on version 3), you apparently must build it with ``CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/kerberos/include/``, else you will have all kinds of unreasonable problems (thanks to Mario Martelli for tracking that one down). #### Solaris +There are Solaris packages for Puppet and Facter in the +[downloads](http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/packages/SunOS. These packages +suffice for both sparc and x86 (even though they're marked x86), but they +don't specify dependencies. They're automatically built during new releases, +so they should always be the latest. + I have had mixed results with the Ruby packages from both [Sunfreeware](http://sunfreeware.com) and [BlastWave](http://www.blastwave.org). -It might almost be easier to compile it manually for Solaris, but Ruby 1.8.3 -from Sunfreeware seems to be working right now. +It might almost be easier to compile it manually for Solaris, but Ruby 1.8.4 +from BlastWave seems to be working right now. If you get segfaults, core dumps, or 'library missing ciphers' errors, that is almost definitely a problem with that specific ruby package, not Puppet or @@ -67,6 +77,9 @@ Ruby itself. #### Debian and Ubuntu +Facter and Puppet are now available in Debian, thanks to Matthew Palmer and +Jamie Wilkinson. + The package maintainer for Ruby on these platforms has decided to split the Ruby standard library into many packages. According to Eric Hollensbe, this is the package dependency list for Puppet on Debian: @@ -81,6 +94,12 @@ this is the package dependency list for Puppet on Debian: * libsyslog-ruby * libwebrick-ruby +#### SuSE + +Martin Vuk is maintaining a SuSE +[yum repository](http://lmmri.fri.uni-lj.si/suse/) +with Puppet and Facter packages. + ### Facter First install facter. Like Puppet, there are [packages][] available for |