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Puppet 2.7 Cookbook
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Puppet 2.7 Cookbook

by John Arundel
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
5h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing packages from a third-party repository

Most often, you will want to install packages from the main distribution repository, so a simple package resource will do:

package { "exim4": ensure => installed }

Sometimes, though, you need a package which is only found in a third-party repository (an Ubuntu PPA, for example). Or it might be that you need a more recent version of a package than that provided by the distribution, which is available from a third party.

On a manually administered machine, you would normally do this by adding the repository source configuration to /etc/apt/sources.list.d (and, if necessary, a GPG key for the repository) before installing the package. We can automate this process easily with Puppet.

How to do it…

  1. Add the ...
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