Q:

SaltStack state to install .deb package file and dependencies

I have a salt formula. On server I am using wkhtmltopdf tools. Ubuntu repo has this tool but it has an older version. I want to use the latest version.
I am doing the following to get it installed on minions manually.
$ wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get install fontconfig libfontenc1 libjpeg-turbo8 libxfont1 x11-common xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils libxrender1
$ sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb

I can do cmd.run for all these commands. Is there any better way of doing any of these steps?

A:

You can specify a remote sources option in a Salt pkg state. You could try something like this
cat stuff.sls

my_pkgs:
  - pkg.installed:
    - pkgs:
      - fontconfig
      - libfontenc1
      - libjpeg-turbo8 
      - libxfont1
      - x11-common
      - xfonts-75dpi
      - xfonts-base
      - xfonts-encodings
      - xfonts-utils
      - libxrender1

install_wkhtmltox:
  pkg.installed:
    - sources:
      - wkhtmltox: http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb

