puppet-agent install not available from repo's on Debian Bullseye

Question

When I follow the instructions on Puppet docs and the readme at https://apt.puppet.com/, I download the correct deb package for my platform, install it with dkpg as per the instructions and it provides me with a sources file that points to a single repository providing puppetserver packages.

However, I already have a Puppet Server, I need to install puppet-agent on several clients in a lab environment. But the repository containing puppet-agent is not provided with the platform package.

More concrete, I downloaded and tried (one at a time, removing previous package), puppet8-release-bullseye.deb, puppet-release-bullseye.deb, puppet-tools-release-bullseye.deb, puppet7-release-bullseye.deb.

I install the package with dpkg -i puppetX-release-bullseye.deb or puppet-tools-release-bullseye.deb and run apt update afterwards. As you can see in the link I provided for the readme, there is no puppet-agent-release-bullseye.deb.

The contents of the sources list files these packages install:

# Puppet 8 bullseye Repository
deb http://apt.puppet.com bullseye puppet8
# Puppet bullseye Repository
deb http://apt.puppet.com bullseye puppet
# Puppet Tools bullseye Repository
deb http://apt.puppet.com bullseye puppet-tools

I tried to be smart and simply add a file with this content:

# Puppet bullseye Repository
deb http://apt.puppet.com bullseye puppet-agent

But that didn't work ;)

Hence, the package puppet-agent is not available for installation using apt install.

I guess I could download the package with wget from https://apt.puppet.com/pool/bullseye/puppet8/p/puppet-agent/puppet-agent_8.2.0-1bullseye_amd64.deb, but then I still won't have a working repo and the package won't update.

Edit: The above won't work because the platform to install the agent on is arm, not x86_64.

Does someone know how I can get puppet-agent from a repository?

Thanks!

Answer 1

There is no ARM package for Debian bullseye, as can be seen by the lack of anything other than amd64 packages here:

http://apt.puppetlabs.com/pool/bullseye/puppet8/p/puppet-agent/index.html

There are also no packages at all for bookworm (no pool dir for this distro).

There is, however, ARM64 support for Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy):

http://apt.puppetlabs.com/pool/jammy/puppet8/p/puppet-agent/index.html

..as stated in the release notes for 8.3.1:

https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/8/release_notes_puppet#enhancements_puppet_x-8-3-0-PA-5050

This was released only yesterday (2023-11-07) and so was after your question was posed.

The full list of supported platforms is here:

https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/8/system_requirements.html#supported_operating_systems-packaged-platforms

Only RHEL and Ubuntu on ARM64 are supported (table cut down from the linked info) :

Operating system	Tested versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including: * Amazon Linux v1 (using RHEL 6 packages) * Amazon Linux v2 (using RHEL 7 packages)	7, 8, 8 Power, 9, 9 (ARM64)
Ubuntu	18.04, 18.04 AARCH, 20.04, 20.04 AARCH, 22.04 (x86_64, ARM64)

So I would suggest moving to Ubuntu 22.04 for ARM64 support for Puppet 8, for now.