本文適用於rhel5.4, 6.4, 7. 僅以el5.4為例。
1 在線安裝方式極為簡單：
# wget --no-check-certificate -O install_salt.sh https://bootstrap.saltstack.com
# sh install_salt.sh -I
以上適用於el5, el6, el7等版本。可以在/etc/yum.repos.d/下面發現一堆repo，保存好下面幾個:
epel.repo
epel-testing.repo
saltstack-salt-el5-epel-5.repo
2 下面主要說明離線安裝方式：
這裡主要是服務器無法上外網，所以要采用rpm包安裝。離線安裝rpm包。
首先是安裝downloadonly插件:
# yum install yum-downloadonly
然後將1中的repo文件復制到/etc/yum.repos.d/下面：
epel.repo
epel-testing.repo
saltstack-salt-el5-epel-5.repo
下載安裝包：
# yum install -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=/root/salt salt-minion
就在/root/salt下面獲得了全部的離線安裝包。將這些安裝包復制到其他rhel5.4的機器，即可使用rpm安裝。
# rpm -ivh *.rpm
# service salt-minion status|restart|stop
附錄1：epel.repo
[root@el5-test salt]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.Fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
[epel-debuginfo]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Debug
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-debug-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
gpgcheck=0
[epel-source]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Source
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-source-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
gpgcheck=0
附錄2：epel-testing.repo
[root@el5-test salt]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo
[epel-testing]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - Testing - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/testing/5/$basearch
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=testing-epel5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
[epel-testing-debuginfo]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - Testing - $basearch - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/testing/5/$basearch/debug
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=testing-debug-epel5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
gpgcheck=0
[epel-testing-source]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - Testing - $basearch - Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/testing/5/SRPMS
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=testing-source-epel5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
gpgcheck=0
附錄3：saltstack-salt-el5-epel-5.repo
[root@el5-test salt]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/saltstack-salt-el5-epel-5.repo
[saltstack-salt-el5]
name=Copr repo for salt-el5 owned by saltstack
baseurl=https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/saltstack/salt-el5/epel-5-$basearch/
skip_if_unavailable=True
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/saltstack/salt-el5/pubkey.gpg
enabled=1
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