Installing a puppet module from a manifest script

Question

I\'m using puppet to provision a vagrant (ubuntu based) virtual machine. In my script I need to:

sudo apt-get build-dep python-lxml

I know

Answer 1

You can install puppet modules on the host machine within your vagrantdir:

puppet module --modulepath=./puppet/modules/ install puppetlabs/mysql

Vagrant takes care to mount this directory to the right place. So there is no need to run scripts other than puppet itself on the node.