Install module with puppet

Question

Trying to install the module vcsrepo with puppet, but really unsure how it could be done. The commandline to install it is:

puppet module install puppetlabs-vcsrepo

Tried to install it this way, but that didn't work:

package { 'vcsrepo':
        ensure => installed,
        }

Answer 1

It'd be really helpful to see the error output of the first command as that IS the way one installs a Puppet module. If I had to guess, it probably errored out saying something like /home/yourusername/.puppet/ does not exist - by default, when ran by a regular user, puppet install will attempt to download the module into .puppet/modules in that user's home directory. Running sudo puppet module install module-name though by default would install the module system-wide into /etc/puppet/modules .