This post gives you instructions to download and install the latest release of SaltStack 2016.11(Latest) version on REDHAT / CentOS 5.

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


$ sudo wget https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/salt-repo-latest-1.el5.noarch.rpm
$ sudo rpm -ivh salt-repo-latest-1.el5.noarch.rpm
$ sudo rm -f salt-repo-latest-1.el5.noarch.rpm


Execute the following command,

$ sudo yum clean expire-cache

Now, install the SaltStack 2016.11(Latest) packages on REDHAT / CentOS 5
salt-minion, salt-master or other salt components,

$ sudo apt-get 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)

$ sud service restart salt-minion