Installation

The Salt system setup is amazingly simple, as this is one of the central design goals of Salt.

.. seealso::

    :doc:`Installing Salt for development </topics/hacking>` and contributing
    to the project.

Quick Install

Many popular distributions will be able to install the salt minion by executing the bootstrap script:

wget -O - http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh

The script should also make it simple to install a salt master, if desired.

Currently the install script has been tested to work on:

See Salt Bootstrap for more information.

These guides go into detail how to install salt on a given platform.

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1

    arch
    debian
    fedora
    freebsd
    gentoo
    osx
    rhel
    solaris
    ubuntu
    windows

Salt should run on any Unix-like platform so long as the dependencies are met.