This post gives you instructions to download and install the latest release of SaltStack 2016.11(Latest) version in  on REDHAT / CentOS 6

Execute the below command to import the SaltStack 2016.11.3 repository key,



$ sudo yum install https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/salt-repo-latest-1.el6.noarch.rpm


Execute the following command,


$ sudo yum clean expire-cache

Now, install the SaltStack 2016.11(Latest) packages on REDHAT / CentOS 6
salt-minion, salt-master or other salt components,


$ sudo yum install salt-master



$ sudo yum install salt-minion



$ sudo yum install salt-ssh



$ sudo yum install salt-syndic



$ sudo yum install salt-cloud



$ sudo yum install salt-api

Start or Stop the above services,


$ sudo service [Salt-*] start



$ sudo service [Salt-*] stop

Restart all the upgraded services(Upgrade Only)


$ sudo systemctl restart salt-minion