// , Puppet 3.6.x installation fails, Error: No such file or directory - /usr/share/puppet/modules/dnsmasq/spec/fixtures/modules/lex-dnsmasq/templates

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// , The full output from this error follows:

$ sudo puppet module install --force /tmp/lex-dnsmasq-2.6.1.tar.gz --modulepath /usr/share/puppet/modules/ --ignore-dependencies
Notice: Preparing to install into /usr/share/puppet/modules ...
Notice: Installing -- do not interrupt ...
Error: No such file or directory - /usr/share/puppet/modules/dnsmasq/spec/fixtures/modules/lex-dnsmasq/templates
Error: Try 'puppet help module install' for usage

$ sudo puppet module install --force lex-dnsmasq --modulepath /usr/share/puppet/modules/
Notice: Preparing to install into /usr/share/puppet/modules ...
Notice: Downloading from https://forgeapi.puppetlabs.com ...
Notice: Installing -- do not interrupt ...
Error: No such file or directory - /usr/share/puppet/modules/dnsmasq/spec/fixtures/modules/lex-dnsmasq/templates
Error: Try 'puppet help module install' for usage

$ sudo puppet module install --force lex-dnsmasq --version 2.6.1 --modulepath /usr/share/puppet/modules/
Notice: Preparing to install into /usr/share/puppet/modules ...
Notice: Downloading from https://forgeapi.puppetlabs.com ...
Notice: Installing -- do not interrupt ...
Error: No such file or directory - /usr/share/puppet/modules/dnsmasq/spec/fixtures/modules/lex-dnsmasq/templates
Error: Try 'puppet help module install' for usage

It looks like some symlinks with relative paths in /usr/share/puppet/modules/dnsmasq/spec/fixtures/modules/lex-dnsmasq/templates are the culprit:

$ ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 puppet puppet 4096 May 31 00:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 puppet puppet 4096 May 31 00:35 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root     21 May 31 00:35 manifests -> ../../../../manifests
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root     21 May 31 00:35 templates -> ../../../../templates

Does puppet module install check for these before they are created or installed?

Should I be extracting this .tar.gz file manually instead of using puppet module install?

Please advise if there is anything else I can do to show more about what is happening here.