SUSE Installation¶

With openSUSE 13.2, Salt 2014.1.11 is available in the primary repositories. The devel:language:python repo will have more up to date versions of salt, all package development will be done there.

Installation¶

Salt can be installed using zypper and is available in the standard openSUSE repositories.

Stable Release¶

Salt is packaged separately for the minion and the master. It is necessary only to install the appropriate package for the role the machine will play. Typically, there will be one master and multiple minions.

zypper install salt-master
zypper install salt-minion

Post-installation tasks openSUSE¶

Master

To have the Master start automatically at boot time:

systemctl enable salt-master.service

To start the Master:

systemctl start salt-master.service

Minion

To have the Minion start automatically at boot time:

systemctl enable salt-minion.service

To start the Minion:

systemctl start salt-minion.service

Post-installation tasks SLES¶

Master

To have the Master start automatically at boot time:

chkconfig salt-master on

To start the Master:

rcsalt-master start

Minion

To have the Minion start automatically at boot time:

chkconfig salt-minion on

To start the Minion:

rcsalt-minion start

Unstable Release¶

openSUSE¶

For openSUSE Factory run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:python/openSUSE_Factory/devel:languages:python.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install salt salt-minion salt-master

For openSUSE 13.2 run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:python/openSUSE_13.2/devel:languages:python.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install salt salt-minion salt-master

For openSUSE 13.1 run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:python/openSUSE_13.1/devel:languages:python.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install salt salt-minion salt-master

For bleeding edge python Factory run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:python/bleeding_edge_python_Factory/devel:languages:python.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install salt salt-minion salt-master

Suse Linux Enterprise¶

For SLE 12 run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:python/SLE_12/devel:languages:python.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install salt salt-minion salt-master

For SLE 11 SP3 run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:python/SLE_11_SP3/devel:languages:python.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install salt salt-minion salt-master

For SLE 11 SP2 run the following as root:

zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:python/SLE_11_SP2/devel:languages:python.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install salt salt-minion salt-master

Now go to the Configuring Salt page.