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A change in ansible version 1.3 to the gem module has gems installed to the users local cache. To install system wide use the user_install=no parameter.

Installing puppet version 2.7.3 I will be installing the package via ruby gems. I do not like it all but the packages available in the apt repository are to old. Install ruby, rubygems and dependencies apt-get install ruby rubygems libopenssl-ruby Install puppet via gem gem install puppet --version=2.7.3 Puppet executables You have to options here: Add the gem bin path to your .profile echo export PATH="$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin" /root/. [Read More]

I cloned a debian squeeze virtual box vdi and created a new vm using the cloned vdi as the disk. When I booted the vm I found that eth0 had not started. Looking at the logs revealed that it changed interface name to eth0. This was probably due to the new mac address showing up. I had no interest in preserving the old rules. Removing the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file and restarting the vm resolved the issue. [Read More]

I had the need to install packages from a repo on debian that were unsigned. To get around this I created the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00trustall add added the following: `I had the need to install packages from a repo on debian that were unsigned. To get around this I created the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00trustall add added the following: ` This is quite dangerous. In production environments you should be using signed repositories. [Read More]