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Table of Contents

1. Precompiled Packages
   1. Alpine Linux
   2. Archlinux
   3. Debian
   4. Fedora
   5. FreeBSD
   6. Nexenta
   7. openSUSE
   8. OS X
   9. Red Hat Enterprise Linux / Centos / Scientific Linux
   10. SUSE
   11. Ubuntu
   12. Source RPMS
2. Unofficial Precompiled Packages
   1. Unofficial Debian Repository
   2. Ubuntu Launchpad Bcfg2 PPA
   3. Unofficial RHEL / Centos Repository
3. Building Your Own

Precompiled Packages

Precompiled/binary packages are available for a number of architectures:

Alpine Linux

• A preliminary packages for Alpine Linux is available in the ​testing branch.

Archlinux

• Packages for Archlinux are available in the ​Arch User Repository.

Debian

• Lenny, Squeeze, and Sid packages are available.
• Sarge
  NOTE: This repository is for historical purposes. The recommended option is to update to a more recent Debian release
  Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list
  

  deb ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg/archive/debian-old sarge/
  

• ​Details about the Bcfg2 package in the Debian Packages database.

Fedora

• The server and the client package are both in the ​Fedora Package Collection. Release candidates are only available for the development version (Rawhide) of Fedora.

FreeBSD

• See ​http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/py-bcfg2/ for instructions

Nexenta

• Elatte-unstable
  Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list
  

  deb ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg/archive/nexenta elatte-unstable/
  

openSUSE

• For openSUSE 11.x are no official packages available at the moment. Use ​http://software.opensuse.org/search to check if the RPM packages for openSUSE are in the official repository.
• There is a chance to find the latest packages in the repo of a contributor.
  • ​m4z
  • ​sublymn8r

OS X

• 10.5 (Leopard)
  Package available from ​ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg/archive/macosx (outdated)
• ​macports provides a prebuild package of Bcfg2.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux / Centos / Scientific Linux

• Packages are available in ​EPEL:
  RHEL 4 / Centos 4 / Scientific Linux

  $ su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/i386/epel-release-4-9.noarch.rpm'
  

  RHEL 5 / Centos 5 / Scientific Linux

  $ su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm'
  

  RHEL 6 / Scientific Linux

  $ su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm'
  

SUSE

• SLES10
  Packages are available from ​ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg/archive/suse/sles10 (outdated)
• SLES9
  Packages are available from ​ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg/archive/suse/sles9 (outdated)

Ubuntu

Oftentimes, you can find slightly older releases in the official Ubuntu repositories, However, it is recommended to use the latest stable release from the ​Ubuntu PPA

Source RPMS

• Source RPMs for all prerequirements and Bcfg2 are available from ​ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg/archive/SRPMS. (outdated)

Unofficial Precompiled Packages

These are unofficial packages that are not maintained by the official mechanisms of the upstream distribution; we are trying to get more recent versions of Bcfg2 into distributions, but often you will need to use one of these.

Unofficial Debian Repository

Until a better alternative is found, these are built manually and made available via ​http://debian.bcfg2.org for Debian GNU/Linux and gNewSense 3 and later.

After making the appropriate one of the below your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bcfg2.list file, do:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys D84BFBD7
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install bcfg2

And if you also want the server:

sudo aptitude install bcfg2-server

Stable Releases

We will strive to only have stable, working releases that have gone through testing in these repositories.

Debian Lenny / gNewSense 3

# /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bcfg2.list
# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys D84BFBD7
deb http://debian.bcfg2.org lenny stable
deb-src http://debian.bcfg2.org lenny stable

Testing releases

These releases are volitile and may sometimes be broken. You shouldn't automatically update production systems against them.

Debian Lenny / gNewSense 3

# /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bcfg2.list
# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys D84BFBD7
deb http://debian.bcfg2.org lenny testing
deb-src http://debian.bcfg2.org lenny testing

Ubuntu Launchpad Bcfg2 PPA

Ubuntu, Trisquel and gNewSense 2 and earlier packages are made by the ​Bcfg2 in Launchpad team.

After making the appropriate one of the below your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bcfg2.list file, do:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 98932BEC
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install bcfg2

And if you also want the server:

sudo aptitude install bcfg2-server

Stable Releases

We will strive to only have stable, working releases that have gone through testing in these repositories.

# /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bcfg2.list
# Bcfg2 PPA - https://launchpad.net/~bcfg2/+archive/ppa
# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 98932BEC
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bcfg2/ppa/ubuntu <codename> main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bcfg2/ppa/ubuntu <codename> main

Where <codename> is the release name (lsb_release -c)

Testing Releases

These releases are volatile and may sometimes be broken. You shouldn't automatically update production systems against them.

# /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bcfg2.list
# Bcfg2 PPA - https://launchpad.net/~bcfg2/+archive/<codename>testing
# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 98932BEC

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bcfg2/<codename>testing/ubuntu <codename> main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bcfg2/<codename>testing/ubuntu <codename> main

Where <codename> is the release name (lsb_release -c)

Unofficial RHEL / Centos Repository

More recent releases are available at ​http://yum.fourkitchens.com/pub/centos/5/noarch/

Building Your Own

You can build your own packages for more recent versions. See BuildingDebianPackages and BuildingRPMPackages