Debian GNU/Linux / Raspbian¶

Installation from the Official SaltStack Repository¶

Packages for Debian 8 (Jessie) and Debian 7 (Wheezy) are available in the Official SaltStack repository.

Instructions are at http://repo.saltstack.com/#debian.

Installation from the Debian / Raspbian Official Repository¶

Stretch (Testing) and Sid (Unstable) distributions are already contain mostly up-to-date Salt packages built by Debian Salt Team. You can install Salt components directly from Debian.

On Jessie (Stable) there is an option to install Salt minion from Stretch with python-tornado dependency from jessie-backports repositories.

To install fresh release of Salt minion on Jessie:

1. Add jessie-backports and stretch repositories:

   Debian:

   echo 'deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
   echo 'deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
   

   Raspbian:

   echo 'deb http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/ stretch main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
   

2. Make Jessie a default release:

   echo 'APT::Default-Release "jessie";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt
   

3. Install Salt dependencies:

   Debian:

   apt-get update
   apt-get install python-zmq python-tornado/jessie-backports salt-common/stretch
   

   Raspbian:

   apt-get update
   apt-get install python-zmq python-tornado/stretch salt-common/stretch
   

4. Install Salt minion package from Stretch:

   apt-get install salt-minion/stretch
   

Install Packages¶

Install the Salt master, minion or other packages from the repository with the apt-get command. These examples each install one of Salt components, but more than one package name may be given at a time:

• apt-get install salt-api
• apt-get install salt-cloud
• apt-get install salt-master
• apt-get install salt-minion
• apt-get install salt-ssh
• apt-get install salt-syndic

Post-installation tasks¶

Now, go to the Configuring Salt page.