Debian Installation

Installation from the SaltStack Repository

2015.8.0 and later packages for Debian 8 (Jessie) are available in the SaltStack repository.

To install using the SaltStack repository:

  1. Run the following command to import the SaltStack repository key:

    wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -
    
  2. Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

    deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian jessie contrib
    
  3. Run sudo apt-get update.

  4. Install the salt-minion, salt-master, or other Salt components:

    • 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.

Installation from the Community Repository

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.

Jessie (Stable)

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

Wheezy (Old Stable)

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

Squeeze (Old Old Stable)

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

Sid (Unstable)

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

Import the repository key.

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

Update the package database

apt-get update

Install packages

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

  • 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.