One of my previous posts concerned how to install Nagios3 from source on Debian Etch.  One of the comments I recieved was that you should generally use the packages available for install.  I agree with this entirely, however there’s no challenge in just using the packages and I’ve found myself getting lazy when it comes to installing stuff recently, so here’s how to install the excellent Puppet configuration management engine from source on Debian Etch.

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