This post gives you instructions to download and install the latest release of SaltStack 2016.11(Latest) version on REDHAT / CentOS 5.

Execute the below command to import the SaltStack 2016.11.3 repository key,



$ sudo wget https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/salt-repo-latest-1.el5.noarch.rpm

$ sudo rpm -ivh salt-repo-latest-1.el5.noarch.rpm

$ sudo rm -f salt-repo-latest-1.el5.noarch.rpm


Execute the following command,


$ sudo yum clean expire-cache

Now, install the SaltStack 2016.11(Latest) packages on REDHAT / CentOS 5
salt-minion, salt-master or other salt components,


$ sudo apt-get install salt-master



$ sudo yum install salt-minion



$ sudo yum install salt-ssh



$ sudo yum install salt-syndic



$ sudo yum install salt-cloud



$ sudo yum install salt-api

Start or Stop the above services,


$ sudo service [Salt-*] start



$ sudo service [Salt-*] stop

Restart all the upgraded services(Upgrade Only)


$ sud service restart salt-minion