Installing Salt CLI
Installing Salt CLI
The Salt CLI is distributed as a zipfile that runs under Linux, macOS and Windows. The installation process downloads the zipfile, unzips the downloaded file, and adds a shortcut for running salt in the target platform.
In brief: Assuming that you want to place the Salt CLI in a given <TARGET_DIR>
directory:
For macOS/Linux (bash):
# download zipfile curl -sLO https://get.xygeni.io/latest/salt/salt.zip # verify integrity SALT_CHECKSUM=$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xygeni/xygeni/main/checksum/latest/salt.zip.sha256) echo "$SALT_CHECKSUM salt.zip" | sha256sum --check # unzip unzip salt.zip -d <TARGET_DIR> # add alias alias salt=<TARGET_DIR>/xygeni_salt/salt salt --help
For Windows (PowerShell):
# download zipfile
iwr https://get.xygeni.io/latest/salt/salt.zip -useb -OutFile salt.zip
# verify integrity
set salt_digest (iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xygeni/xygeni/main/checksum/latest/salt.zip.sha256).Content
(Get-FileHash '.\salt.zip' -Algorithm SHA256).Hash -eq $salt_digest
# unzip
Expand-Archive '.\salt.zip' -DestionationPath '<TARGET_DIR>'
# Or, alternatively, for older PowerShell versions:
# [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory('.\salt.zip', '<TARGET_DIR>')
# add alias
Set-Alias -Name salt -Value <PATH_TO_SALT>\salt.ps1
salt --help
The following sections describe in more detail each step.
Download Salt CLI
Run the one of the following which better matches your preferences:
For mac/Linux (bash):
curl -sLO https://get.xygeni.io/latest/salt/salt.zip
On Windows (PowerShell):
iwr https://get.xygeni.io/latest/salt/salt.zip -useb -OutFile salt.zip
Verify the Integrity
Xygeni publishes a SHA-256 checksum of published components in the xygeni/xygeni GitHub repository, so you may verify the integrity of a downloaded artifact.
To ensure that the downloaded installation script checksum matches the checksum published in Xygeni repository, meaning that probably it was not tampered with:
On mac/Linux (bash):
echo "$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xygeni/xygeni/main/checksum/latest/salt.zip.sha256) salt.zip" | sha256sum --check
If under macOS, as
sha256sum
is probably not installed in your host, you may:(1) read this to install it,
(2) or use
shasum -a 256
instead orsha256sum
if theshasum
command is installed,echo "$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xygeni/xygeni/main/checksum/latest/salt.zip.sha256) salt.zip" | sha256 -a 256 --check
On Windows (PowerShell):
(Get-FileHash '.\salt.zip' -Algorithm SHA256).Hash -eq ` (iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xygeni/xygeni/main/checksum/latest/salt.zip.sha256)
Unzip the CLI
TARGET_DIR
is the path where the zipfile contents will be extracted. Replace it with your
For mac/Linux (bash):
unzip salt.zip -d <TARGET_DIR>
On Windows (PowerShell):
Expand-Archive '.\salt.zip' -DestionationPath '<TARGET_DIR>' # Or, alternatively, for older PowerShell versions: # [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory('.\salt.zip', '<TARGET_DIR>')
In what follows, the location of the Salt CLI is TARGET_DIR/xygeni_salt
Set Alias for Salt
The Salt CLI command is either a bash salt
or PowerShell salt.ps1
script under TARGET_DIR/xygeni_salt
. It is convenient to use an alias for running the command without providing its full path. You may add TARGET_DIR/xygeni_salt
to the PATH, or alternatively add an alias or shell function:
For mac/Linux (bash):
alias salt=<TARGET_DIR>/xygeni_salt/salt
On Windows (PowerShell):
Set-Alias -Name salt -Value <PATH_TO_SALT>\salt.ps1
The salt CLI is now available for running using salt
alias. Run salt --help
to show the help for the different commands available.
Execute Salt
Once installed, you can execute salt.
Please note that you need to provide a Xygeni Token to salt to make it work.
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