After waiting a long time and playing unsuccessfuly with apt, I was able to extract puppet-tools.list from the .deb using dpkg-deb and install it. to help the next person with this problem,
# Puppet Tools bionic Repository deb http://apt.puppet.com bionic puppet-tools On Monday, July 20, 2020 at 2:00:29 PM UTC-7 Steve Redlich wrote: > I'm not able to setup the puppet apt repository on ubuntu 18.04 > > > root@lynx:/tmp# dpkg -i puppet-tools-release-bionic.deb > (Reading database ... 239282 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack puppet-tools-release-bionic.deb ... > Unpacking puppet-tools-release (1.0.0-4bionic) over (1.0.0-4bionic) ... > Setting up puppet-tools-release (1.0.0-4bionic) ... > chmod: cannot access '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppet-tools.list': No such > file or directory > > root@lynx:/tmp# touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppet-tools.list > root@lynx:/tmp# dpkg -i puppet-tools-release-bionic.deb > (Reading database ... 239282 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack puppet-tools-release-bionic.deb ... > Unpacking puppet-tools-release (1.0.0-4bionic) over (1.0.0-4bionic) ... > Setting up puppet-tools-release (1.0.0-4bionic) ... > root@lynx:/tmp# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppet-tools.list > root@lynx:/tmp# > (note empty file) > I would appreciate it if someone could reply with a contents of the > puppet-tools.list apt repository listing so I can get started with puppet. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/cc44d63e-f1af-49b9-8073-49cfaf2ea06dn%40googlegroups.com.
