Ubuntu¶

Installation from the Official SaltStack Repository¶

Packages for Ubuntu 16 (Xenial), Ubuntu 14 (Trusty), and Ubuntu 12 (Precise) are available in the SaltStack repository.

Instructions are at https://repo.saltstack.com/#ubuntu.

Install Packages¶

Install the Salt master, minion or other packages from the repository with the apt-get command. These examples each install one of Salt components, but more than one package name may be given at a time:

• apt-get install salt-api

• apt-get install salt-cloud

• apt-get install salt-master

• apt-get install salt-minion

• apt-get install salt-ssh

• apt-get install salt-syndic

Post-installation tasks¶

Now go to the Configuring Salt page.