On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Andreas Haerter <list+puppet-us...@mail-node.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 05.04.2012 22:42, Brown, Rodrick wrote: >> I really hate poor documentation. >> >> I’m following along in PDF documentation I downloaded from the official >> site and I’m stuck after I installed rack & passenger modules from >> rubygems. > > There is a PDF?! OK... > > However, Maybe helpful: > <http://blog.andreas-haerter.com/2012/02/05/how-to-start-puppet-system-config-links-resources-tutorials> > -> "How to start" listing > > >> I ran the passenger build script and it compiled and installed into my >> local apache httpd server successfully. > > I personally started by using Puppet without master but "puppet apply" > instead. I created modules and then ran something like > >> su - >> puppet apply --verbose --modulepath /your/modules-directory/ -e "class { >> 'example': } foobar { [...] }" > > to learn the stuff before creating master infrastructure and stuff. > BTW: There are masterless users out there (cf. "Masterless" listing at > my blog posting linked above). > > >> Puppet seems way too clumber some with the amount of dependencies >> required so far. > > Seriously: use the packages of your distribution or the YUM/APT repos by > Puppetlabs if you want to start with all the 2.7 features right now (I > would recommend that - why learning and maintain old stuff if you just > start to use Puppet?). Or are you running Puppet on windows (=no > repositories available)? But an MSI is available for windows: http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/windows
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