Installing latest version of Puppet on Ubuntu

The latest version of Puppet can be installed on Ubuntu by adding the Puppetlabs repository and then installing the official Puppet package:

sudo wget http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-precise.deb
sudo dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-precise.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install puppet

This will install the latest official version of Puppet. Check the version by issuing this command:

puppet --version

At the time of writing, the latest version was 3.2.4.