This post gives you instructions to download and install the latest release of SaltStack 2016.11(Latest) version in Debian 8 (Jessie).

If you would like to upgrading Debian 8 from Salt Versions Earlier than 2015.8.4,

The following lines must be added in systemd service file to upgrade on these earlier versions of Salt.



[Service]

KillMode=process

Execute the below command to import the SaltStack 2016.11(Latest) repository key,


$ wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/8/amd64/latest/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -



$ wget -O - https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/8/amd64/latest/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub | sudo apt-key add -

Save the below line to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/saltstack.list:


deb http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/8/amd64/latest jessie main

Execute the command to updates:


$ sudo apt-get update

Now, install the SaltStack 2016.11(Latest) packages - salt-minion, salt-master or other salt components,


$ sudo apt-get install salt-master



$ sudo apt-get install salt-minion



$ sudo apt-get install salt-ssh



$ sudo apt-get install salt-syndic



$ sudo apt-get install salt-cloud



$ sudo apt-get install salt-api


Start or Stop the above services,


$ sudo service [Salt-*] start



$ sudo service [Salt-*] stop

Restart all upgraded services(Upgrade Only)


$ sudo systemctl restart salt-minion