12.04 preseed install cannot update puppet to 3.4 from puppet repo

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> During a preseed installation on 12.04 LTS I want to update puppet directly
> from 2.7 to 3.4 using the puppet Repo, this doesn't work and hangs on a
> unmet depency.
>
> In my preseed file i have the following:
>
> # Puppetlabs repo
> d-i apt-setup/local0/repository string \
>     http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ precise main
>     d-i apt-setup/local0/comment string Puppetlabs packages
>     d-i apt-setup/local0/key string http://apt.puppetlabs.com/pubkey.gpg
>
> d-i pkgsel/upgrade select full-upgrade
>
> The unmet dependency puppet-common error is shown in the attachment.

The canonical way to install puppetlabs is:

wget http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-precise.deb
dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-precise.deb
apt-get update
apt-get install ...

The puppetlabs-release-precise.deb sets up repos and keys for the
"main" and "dependencies" components of puppetlabs.

Did you set up the "dependencies" component of puppetlabs?

AFAIK, you also need to set up the "universe" component of ubuntu.