Puppet on a Debian Wheezy machine Unmet Dependencies: Facter

Question

I am attempting to create a Puppet master server on a Raspberry Pi, but every time I attempt to install the package "puppetmaster-passenger" I get the following error:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get install puppetmaster-passenger

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    puppetmaster-passenger : Depends: puppetmaster-common (= 3.6.2-1puppetlabs1) but it is not going to be intalled
                             Depends: facter (>= 1.7.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I'm working with a brand new installation of Debian Wheezy 7.5 and have run apt-get update. I believe the issue is that one of the dependencies of facter is dmidecode, but dmidecode is not supported on ARM software. I've found a guide for removing the dependency for older versions of puppet, but nothing very recent (most recent: http://blog.csanchez.org/2014/01/23/installing-puppet-3-in-a-beaglebone-or-raspberry-pi/ ). What does this mean for getting the Raspberry Pi setup as a Puppet master server? If all I need to do to solve this issue is recompile facter without the dependency, could someone give me advice on how to do that? Here is a directory with all of the facter versions: http://apt.puppetlabs.com/pool/precise/main/f/facter/ (I'll need to run a version >= 1.7.0)

Answer 1

Make sure you've configured puppetlabs APT repositories:

eg cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppetlabs.list :

# Puppetlabs products
deb http://apt.puppetlabs.com wheezy main
deb-src http://apt.puppetlabs.com wheezy main

# Puppetlabs dependencies
deb http://apt.puppetlabs.com wheezy dependencies
deb-src http://apt.puppetlabs.com wheezy dependencies

You can simply install puppet in few steps:

1. wget http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-wheezy.deb
2. dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-wheezy.deb
3. apt-get update
4. apt-get install puppetmaster-passenger

Answer 2

Try this please, I hope this command will surely work for you.

sudo apt-get install puppet=3.7.1-1puppetlabs1 puppet-common=3.7.1-1puppetlabs1