apt repo issue (no puppet-agent found) trying to install puppet 4.3.1

[MikeCaspar]

Have tried installed with a specific version number as well as latest.

After some experimentation found a way to install...

Error...

Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Version '1.3.2' for 'puppet-agent' was not found
20:13:13 +0000 CRIT: Installation failed
20:13:13 +0000 CRIT: Please file a bug report at https://github.com/petems/puppet-install-shell/
20:13:13 +0000 CRIT: 
20:13:13 +0000 CRIT: Version: 4.3.1
20:13:13 +0000 CRIT: Platform: ubuntu
20:13:13 +0000 CRIT: Platform Version: 14.04
20:13:13 +0000 CRIT: Machine: x86_64
20:13:13 +0000 CRIT: OS: Linux
20:13:13 +0000 CRIT: 
20:13:13 +0000 CRIT: Please detail your operating system type, version and any other relevant details

I found this in the output which gave me clue....

20:12:27 +0000 INFO: Ubuntu platform! Lets get you a DEB...
20:12:27 +0000 INFO: Downloading http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-trusty.deb
20:12:27 +0000 INFO:   to file /tmp/install.sh.2084.24561/puppetlabs-release-pc1-trusty.deb

Eventually, I managed to get the puppet agent to install by using the instructions on this page from puppetlabs...

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/4.3/reference/install_linux.html

I'm not sure if the problem is the reference to trust or wheezy, but by following the instructions, I did the following...

wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-wheezy.deb
dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-pc1-wheezy.deb

My Vagrantfile uses...

config.vm.box = 'ubuntu/trusty64'

From what I can tell, the script command could be the problem.

I just thought I'd share here as a problem with some clues as to where it might get fixed.

[petems]

Weird, on precise boxes the version number is "1.3.2-1trusty", I'll have to take that into account in the install script...

[MikeCaspar]

Hi there... I ended up having more problems..

It appears that the ubuntu/trusty64 image has a version of puppet already installed.. I'm not sure why this is this way (maybe to support the provision puppet.

Anyways, I thought I'd let you know what I ended up needing to do (in the event it helps out at all).

• remove this plugin (unfortunately).. It would not run without errors.

Included the following script .. (I have shared the part I can with you).

## in case an older version of puppet is installed, remove it
apt-get purge puppet -y
rm /etc/puppet -rf
apt-get autoremove -y

apt-get install wget 
wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-wheezy.deb
dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-pc1-wheezy.deb
apt-get update

# install new puppet agent now...
apt-get install puppet-agent

Now, everything is installed perfectly (based on the new version 4.X directory structure).

You'll find now that puppet is located in the following location...

/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin

and etc. files...

/etc/puppetlabs/puppet

If using 'ubuntu/trusty64' is a bad idea for this plugin, I suppose you could always restrict to particular boxes.. Up to you.

I hope this info helps you out.

[petems]

@MikeCaspar It's possible to use this plugin to run a script of your choice, so you could integrate this in the Vagrantfile using the plugin.

For example this worked for me: (Gist link is to your above code)

config.vm.define :trusty_ubuntu_box do |trusty_ubuntu_box|
    trusty_ubuntu_box.puppet_install.puppet_version = :latest
    trusty_ubuntu_box.puppet_install.install_url = 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/petems/6723c2eedb9d32d7ad97/raw/990ff448f6430aa015e208668a3cecb3f1db0d4b/purge_old_install_new.sh'

    trusty_ubuntu_box.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"

    trusty_ubuntu_box.vm.provision "shell", inline: "puppet --version"

end

Can you confirm if that works for you?

[MikeCaspar]

Hi there. Things worked out well !! Thanks.

There is one Tiny quirk (not sure if its worth trying to change ? I think I'll leave it for now).

The user vagrant has the path added to the shell of "/opt/puppetlabs/bin/" nicely.

For some reason, the path change didn't copy over to the root user. This is the Default behaviour though, so not sure how big of a deal this is.

I like the idea of the gist by the way :-> Nice approach.

I've created a repo for the future in the event this script should be improved over time (which I suspect it might be.). It could also serve other people as well..

I'll add you as a contributor to the repo... I put a license on it (MIT) as it's fairly destructive in nature. repo

This would make the new config...

config.vm.define :trusty_ubuntu_box do |trusty_ubuntu_box|
    trusty_ubuntu_box.puppet_install.puppet_version = :latest
    trusty_ubuntu_box.puppet_install.install_url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MikeCaspar/vagrant-purge-old-puppet-from-ubuntu/master/scripts/1.0.0/purge-install.sh'

    trusty_ubuntu_box.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"

    trusty_ubuntu_box.vm.provision "shell", inline: "puppet --version"

end

Feel free to add yourself as a contributor to the README.MD any time.

Here's the repo [https://github.com/MikeCaspar/vagrant-purge-old-puppet-from-ubuntu] https://github.com/MikeCaspar/vagrant-purge-old-puppet-from-ubuntu

[MikeCaspar]

Hi, just so you know. I created a /latest so you don't have to adjust the versions unless you want to.

[petems]

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