Puppet On Ubuntu

Ubuntu, being a close derivative of Debian, has a similarly solid support base. However, there is no direct support for Puppet within the Ubuntu distribution. The packages that appear in the Ubuntu repositories are only there as a side-effect of Ubuntu's wholesale importation of packages from Debian. As such, the packages in the Ubuntu repositories are usually badly out of date. Users should use the Puppet and Facter packages available from Debian's unstable repositories, as that is where new packages are uploaded.

Supported Versions

It is an explicit design goal of the Debian package maintainer that the Puppet packages should work on all stable LTS releases. Running Puppet on other Ubuntu releases is expected to work, but isn't nearly as well tested by the maintainer.