Debian GNU/Linux distribution and some devariatives such as Raspbian already have included Salt packages to their repositories. However, current stable release codenamed "Jessie" contains old outdated Salt release. It is recommended to use SaltStack repository for Debian as described below.
Installation from official Debian and Raspbian repositories is described here.
Packages for Debian 8 (Jessie) and Debian 7 (Wheezy) are available in the Official SaltStack repository.
Instructions are at http://repo.saltstack.com/#debian.
The SaltStack community maintains a Debian repository at debian.saltstack.com. Packages for Debian Old Stable, Stable, and Unstable (Wheezy, Jessie, and Sid) for Salt 0.16 and later are published in this repository.
Note
Packages in this repository are community built, and it can take a little while until the latest SaltStack release is available in this repository.
For Jessie, the following line is needed in either
/etc/apt/sources.list
or a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d
:
deb http://debian.saltstack.com/debian jessie-saltstack main
For Wheezy, the following line is needed in either
/etc/apt/sources.list
or a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d
:
deb http://debian.saltstack.com/debian wheezy-saltstack main
For Squeeze, you will need to enable the Debian backports repository
as well as the debian.saltstack.com repository. To do so, add the
following to /etc/apt/sources.list
or a file in
/etc/apt/sources.list.d
:
deb http://debian.saltstack.com/debian squeeze-saltstack main
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
For Stretch, the following line is needed in either
/etc/apt/sources.list
or a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d
:
deb http://debian.saltstack.com/debian stretch-saltstack main
For Sid, the following line is needed in either
/etc/apt/sources.list
or a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d
:
deb http://debian.saltstack.com/debian unstable main
You will need to import the key used for signing.
wget -q -O- "http://debian.saltstack.com/debian-salt-team-joehealy.gpg.key" | apt-key add -
Note
You can optionally verify the key integrity with sha512sum
using the
public key signature shown here. E.g:
echo "b702969447140d5553e31e9701be13ca11cc0a7ed5fe2b30acb8491567560ee62f834772b5095d735dfcecb2384a5c1a20045f52861c417f50b68dd5ff4660e6 debian-salt-team-joehealy.gpg.key" | sha512sum -c
apt-get update
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:
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
Make Jessie a default release:
echo 'APT::Default-Release "jessie";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt
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
Install Salt minion package from Stretch:
apt-get install salt-minion/stretch
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
Now, go to the Configuring Salt page.
Docs for previous releases are available on readthedocs.org.
Latest Salt release: 2015.8.10