installing node.js via puppet; package not found

Question

I'm trying to install node.js on a Vagrant box using puppet. My Vagrantfile (Debian Wheezy) has the following configuration:

config.vm.provision :puppet, run: "always" do |puppet|
  puppet.manifests_path = "puppet/manifests"
  puppet.module_path = "puppet/modules"
  puppet.options = '--verbose'
end

Inside puppet/modules I have the official puppetlabs-nodejs module (renamed to just nodejs ). Inside puppet/manifests I'm starting out small - default.pp is just this:

Exec { path => [ "/bin/", "/sbin/" , "/usr/bin/", "/usr/sbin/" ] }
include nodejs

When I run vagrant provision I get the following errors:

==> default: err: /Stage[main]/Nodejs/Package[nodejs]/ensure: change from purged to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install nodejs' returned 100: Reading package lists...
==> default: Building dependency tree...
==> default: Reading state information...
==> default: E: Unable to locate package nodejs
==> default: 
==> default: err: /Stage[main]/Nodejs/Package[npm]/ensure: change from purged to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install npm' returned 100: Reading package lists...
==> default: Building dependency tree...
==> default: Reading state information...
==> default: E: Unable to locate package npm
==> default: 

Far as I can tell I'm following the readme . Is that readme incomplete? Is there more to installing node than just including the module?

Answer 1

Instead of using an exec, you could use the manage_package_repo parameter:

  package { 'nodejs':
    ensure              => present,
    manage_package_repo => true,
  }

This will run this Puppet code (which is the same as the exec, but more idempotent!)

if ($ensure == 'present') {
    apt::source { 'nodesource':
      include_src       => $enable_src,
      key               => '1655A0AB68576280',
      key_source        => 'https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key',
      location          => 'https://deb.nodesource.com/node',
      pin               => $pin,
      release           => $::lsbdistcodename,
      repos             => 'main',
      required_packages => 'apt-transport-https ca-certificates',
    }
  }

Answer 2

You need to add run the following first to pull in the pointers to the packages.

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -

You will need an exec block to do this.

exec block with that command, and creates set to '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list'