Installing Puppet agent using PE package management fails with Error parsing “proxy = ‘None’” for Puppet Enterprise

If you try to install Puppet agent onto an EL 7 node, you might get a Repository 'pe_repo': Error parsing config: Error parsing "proxy = 'None'" error if dnf is also installed.

Error messages and logs

Repository 'pe_repo': Error parsing config: Error parsing "proxy = 'None'": URL must be http, ftp, https, socks4, socks4a, socks5 or socks5h not ""

Version and installation information

PE version: All supported
OS: EL 7

Solution

To resolve the issue, you can either remove dnf or upgrade the OS to a version with dnf as the default package manager.