Ubuntu¶

Installation from the Official SaltStack Repository¶

Packages for Ubuntu 14 (Trusty) and Ubuntu 12 (Precise) are available in the SaltStack repository.

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

Installation from the Community-Maintained Repository¶

Packages for Ubuntu are also published in the saltstack PPA. If you have the add-apt-repository utility, you can add the repository and import the key in one step:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saltstack/salt

In addition to the main repository, there are secondary repositories for each individual major release. These repositories receive security and point releases but will not upgrade to any subsequent major release. There are currently several available repos: salt16, salt17, salt2014-1, salt2014-7, salt2015-5. For example to follow 2015.5.x releases:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saltstack/salt2015-5

add-apt-repository: command not found?

The add-apt-repository command is not always present on Ubuntu systems. This can be fixed by installing python-software-properties:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

The following may be required as well:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Note that since Ubuntu 12.10 (Raring Ringtail), add-apt-repository is found in the software-properties-common package, and is part of the base install. Thus, add-apt-repository should be able to be used out-of-the-box to add the PPA.

Alternately, manually add the repository and import the PPA key with these commands:

echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/saltstack/salt/ubuntu `lsb_release -sc` main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/saltstack.list
wget -q -O- "http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4759FA960E27C0A6" | sudo apt-key add -

After adding the repository, update the package management database:

sudo apt-get update

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.