package

Table of Contents

1. Description
2. Requirements
3. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
4. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
5. Getting help - Some Helpful commands

Description

This module provides the package task. This task allows you to install, uninstall, update, and check the status of packages.

Requirements

This module requires Puppet Enterprise 2017.3 or later to be installed on the machine from which you are running task commands (the controller node). Machines receiving task requests must be Puppet agents.

Usage

To run a package task, use the task command, specifying the action and the name of the package.

1. On the command line, run puppet task package <ACTION> <PACKAGE_NAME>.

For example, to check whether the vim package is present or absent, run puppet task package status vim

You can also run tasks in the PE console. See PE task documentation for complete information.

Reference

To view the available actions and parameters, on the command line, run puppet task show package or see the package module page on the Forge.

For a complete list of optional package providers that are supported, see the Puppet Types documentation.

Getting Help

To display help for the package task, run puppet task show package

To show help for the task CLI, run puppet task run --help