CentOS 7 and Puppet unable to install nc

Question

I am having a weird issue with having puppet enforce the package nc   I installed it manually in the end via    yum install nc  I see puppet does it via   usr bin yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list nc Returns  Error  No matching Packages to list  I have tested this by command line as well  yum list nc Returns Error  No matching Packages to list  Yet  when I do  yum install nc Returns  Package 2 nmap-ncat-6 40-4 el7 x86 64 already installed and latest version    What am I missing

User · Answer

Nc is a link to nmap-ncat   It would be nice to use nmap-ncat in your puppet  because NC is a virtual name of nmap-ncat   Puppet cannot understand the links virtualnames  your puppet should be   package      nmap-ncat       ensure   gt  installed

User · Answer

yum install nmap-ncat x86 64   resolved my problem

User · Answer

You can use a case in this case  to separate versions one example is using FACT os  which returns the version etc of your system    the command facter will return the details   root sytem  facter -p os   name   gt  CentOS    family   gt  RedHat    release   gt   major   gt  7    minor   gt  0    full   gt  7 0 1406      we capture release hash  curr os    os  release    case  curr os  major        7          something         something      That is an fast example  Might have typos  or not exactly working  But using system facts you can see what happens   The OS fact provides you 3 main variables  name  family  release    Under release you have a small dictionary with more information about your os  combining these you can create cases to meet your targets

[puppet] CentOS 7 and Puppet unable to install nc

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