Modules from the Forge
Modules on Puppet Forge can be installed using Puppet's built-in module command. The modules on the Forge have files named Modulefile, which define their dependencies; so, if you download modules from the Forge using puppet module install, then their dependencies will be resolved in a way similar to how yum resolves dependencies for rpm packages.
To install the puppetlabs-puppetdb module, we will simply issue a puppet module install command in the appropriate directory. We'll create a new directory in tmp; for our example, this will be /tmp/public_modules, as shown here:
[git@stand ~]$ cd /tmp [git@stand tmp]$ mkdir public_modules [git@stand tmp]$ cd public_modules/ [git@stand public_modules]$
Then, we'll inform Puppet that our modulepath is /tmp/public_modules and install the puppetdb module using the following command:
[git@stand public_modules]$ puppet module install --modulepath=/tmp/public_modules puppetlabs-puppetdb Notice: Preparing to install...
