How To Install Salt-call?

How To Install Salt-call?

salt-call

Invoke salt locally on a salt minion.

Maintainer: Debian Salt Team



Section: admin

Install salt-call

  • Debian apt-get install salt-common Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install salt-common Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add salt Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S salt Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install salt-minion Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install salt-common Click to copy
  • macOS brew install salt Click to copy

Invoke salt locally on a salt minion.

How to use salt-call?

Below are few example commands for salt-call that you can use in the terminal.

Perform a highstate on this minion:
salt-call state.highstateClick to copy
Perform a highstate dry-run, compute all changes but don't actually perform them:
salt-call state.highstate test=trueClick to copy
Perform a highstate with verbose debugging output:
salt-call -l debug state.highstateClick to copy
List this minion's grains:
salt-call grains.itemsClick to copy
To install the latest version of salt-call in your favorite operating system just copy the salt-call installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of salt-call 2026 package in your OS.