puppet-el software package provides syntax highlighting for puppet manifests in emacs, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install puppet-el
puppet-el is installed in your system.
Make ensure the puppet-el package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep puppet-el *
You will get with puppet-el package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | puppet-el |
| Version | 3.4.3-1 |
| Description | syntax highlighting for puppet manifests in emacs |
| Sub Section | Admin |