I got puppet installed and running on Redhat 8 today. I'm passing on my notes to the list to help out others that may want or need puppet running on older Redhat servers.
This is pretty much a copy & paste from my own personal wiki so please forgive any odd formating. ==== Puppet Setup on Redhat 8 ==== Here's a quick-n-dirty on how I got puppet running on redhat 8. Please don't ask me why I needed it running on redhat 8. I will burst into tears. My object here was to get my redhat 8 servers managed by puppet alongside the rest of my CentOS servers. I decided to keep puppet separate from the rest of the system. This way I don't upset the systems chi. I should point out that I know little about the world of ruby & its supposed "gems". In the End this setup works & that is what is all that matters to me. === Basic Overview === * Installing to /opt/puppet using the puppet gem package. * Download the latest openssl source from http://www.openssl.org/source. I used openssl-0.9.8k.tar.gz * extract openssl and install using # ./config --prefix=/opt/puppet && make && make install * Download and extract Ruby 1.8.x from ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8. I used ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz * Change to the ruby-1.8.7-p72 directory and move the ext/openssl directory out of the way. # cd ruby-1.8.7-p72 # mv ext/openssl /tmp * With the openssl extension out of the way you can now install puppet like so # ./configure --prefix=/opt/puppet && make && make install * Now that ruby is installed move the openssl directory back into ./ext then compile the openssl module separately. This is important because we will be building the openssl ruby module using our openssl install located in /opt/puppet # pwd # /usr/local/src/puppet_setup/ruby-1.8.7-p72 # mv /tmp/openssl ./ext # cd ./ext/openssl # ../../ruby extconf.rb --with-openssl-include=/opt/puppet/include --with-openssl-lib=/opt/puppet/lib # LD_RUN_PATH=/opt/puppet/lib make # make install * Next we will install rubygems from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126. Here I used version rubygems-1.3.1.tgz * This is an easy install. Extract the rubygems tar then install it using the newly installed version of ruby. # cd rubygems-1.3.1 # /opt/puppet/bin/ruby setup.rb * Almost done. Now download the latest stable puppet gem from http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/DownloadingPuppet. I ended up installing puppet-0.24.8.gem # /opt/puppet/bin/gem install puppet-0.24.8.gem * That's it! Puppet should now be located in /opt/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/bin. I ended up creating a puppet module that links the different binaries from the gems directory to /usr/bin & /usr/sbin then adds an init script to /etc/init.d * When you run puppetd for the first time it should create /etc/puppet and /var/lib/puppet. Hope this helps! -Brandon Evans --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
