In Chapter 1, Puppet Language and Style, we installed Puppet as a rubygem using the gem install. When deploying to several nodes, this may not be the best approach. Using the package manager of your chosen distribution is the best way to keep your Puppet versions similar on all of the nodes in your deployment. Puppet labs maintain repositories for APT-based and YUM-based distributions.
If your Linux distribution uses APT for package management, go to http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ and download the appropriate Puppet labs release package for your distribution. For our wheezy cookbook node, we will use http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-wheezy.deb.
If you are using a Linux distribution that uses YUM for package management, go to http://yum.puppetlabs.com/ and download the appropriate Puppet labs release package for your distribution.