Installing Webmin on Ubuntu

Preparing the System

 

Run the below command at the command line promt. This will install the neccesary packages needed to run Webmin

 

sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl

(If youre using Ubuntu 10.4 libmd5-perl is outdated, run the below comands instead)

http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libm/libmd5-perl/libmd5-perl_2.03-1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i libmd5-perl_2.03-2_all.deb

Download the application

Download the latest version of Webmin, from here http://www.webmin.com/download.html using the below command:

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.590_all.deb (Replace the file at end with the newest version number)

 

Install Webmin

 

Unpack and install Webmin using the below command, again replacing the version number with the most up to date version

sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.590_all.deb

If the server complains that there are some library things missing, just run the following command:-

sudo apt- get install -f

You should now be able to login to Webmin at the URL https://serverip-or-domain:10000/

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