Installing Bolt on Arch Linux

In this tutorial, we'll be going through the process of installing and setting up Bolt on Arch Linux.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, ensure that your Arch Linux machine has the following:

• An active internet connection
• sudo access
• A terminal emulator

Step 1: Install Puppet repository

Bolt is developed by Puppet, therefore, we'll need to add the Puppet repository to our Arch Linux machine. Open your terminal emulator and enter the following command:

sudo pacman -S curl

After installing curl, run the following command to add the Puppet repository to your machine:

curl -o /etc/pacman.d/puppetlabs-aur.db.tar.gz -L https://download.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-aur/puppetlabs.pacman.db.tar.gz

Next, we'll add the Puppet signing keys to our Arch Linux machine. Run the following command:

sudo pacman-key --add /etc/pacman.d/puppetlabs-aur.db.tar.gz
sudo pacman-key --finger 26D95A958529A3A2
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 26D95A958529A3A2

Step 2: Install Bolt

Now that we've added the Puppet repository to our Arch Linux machine, we can now proceed to install Bolt using the following command:

sudo pacman -S bolt

That's it! We've successfully installed Bolt on Arch Linux.

Step 3: Verify Bolt installation

To verify that Bolt is installed on our machine, we can run the following command:

bolt --version

This should output the version of Bolt that we've installed.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we went through the steps required to install Bolt on Arch Linux. With Bolt now installed, you can take advantage of its powerful features for managing remote infrastructure.