On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Michael Stahnke <stah...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Jeff Sussna <j...@ingineering.it> wrote: >> I want to use Puppet and Facter on a machine where I don't have sudo >> or root access privileges. I won't be using Puppet for anything that >> requires that level of access, so I should be OK if I can get it on >> the box. Any advice on how to proceed? Currently the Facter installer >> complains that it doesn't have privileges for /usr/bin/facter. I >> assume Puppet will have the same complain about /etc/puppet. >> >> Am trying to install Puppet 2.7.6/Facter 1.6.1 from source on SLES 11 >> in case that matters. > > You could clone the sources from git in your home directory and then > set your RUBYLIB environment variable to look in those cloned > directories and adjust $PATH accordingly. That would probably be > easier than trying to use a package that assumes root rights. The ext/envpuppet script should help run directly from source as well. I use it to hack on the puppet code base and work on module plugins. -Jeff -- 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.
