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+Puppet
+======
+
+Puppet, an automated administrative engine for your Linux and Unix systems, performs 
+administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server 
+configurations) based on a centralized specification.
+
+Documentation (and detailed install instructions) can be found 
+online at the `Puppet Wiki`_.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+Generally, you need the following things installed:
+
+* Ruby >= 1.8.1 (earlier releases might work but probably not)
+
+* The Ruby OpenSSL library.  For some reason, this often isn't included
+  in the main ruby distributions.  You can test for it by running
+  'ruby -ropenssl -e "puts :yep"'.  If that errors out, you're missing the
+  library.
+
+  If your distribution doesn't come with the necessary library (e.g., on Debian
+  and Ubuntu you need to install libopenssl-ruby), then you'll probably have to
+  compile Ruby yourself, since it's part of the standard library and not
+  available separately.  You could probably just compile and install that one
+  library, though.
+
+* The Ruby XMLRPC client and server libraries.  For some reason, this often
+  isn't included in the main ruby distributions.  You can test for it by
+  running 'ruby -rxmlrpc/client -e "puts :yep"'.  If that errors out, you're missing
+  the library.
+
+* Facter => 1.1.1
+  You can get this from your package management system or the `Facter site`_ 
+
+.. _Puppet Wiki: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/DocumentationStart
+.. _Facter site: http://reductivelabs.com/projects/facter