[nzlug] Am I going daft?

[David Harrison]

Webmin is best installed from the latest rpm/deb package available on 
the Sourceforge site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/webadmin/

As it is just a bunch of perl scripts installation is fairly painless 
with system detection and configuration being fairly automatic.

Given its nature it is wise to keep up to date with the latest release 
as there are always security holes being found.
Unfortunately many distributions don't keep up to date with the latest 
release.
Within Webmin there is a self updater so you only have to run through 
the installation once, after that you can check for and install updates 
via the Web interface.


David



Simon Green wrote:
> On 29/07/07, Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I decided to have a look at webmin. Same problem. I can't find it by doing an:
>> aptitude search webmin
>> but if I enter in:
>> apt-cache dump | grep webmin
>> it comes up there - what can I do from here?
>>     
>
> Go to the Ubuntu Community Wiki (https://help.ubuntu.com/community),
> and type webmin in the search box. It has some installation
> instructions (haven't installed it myself). As for why it doesn't show
> in the search, but does in the dump:
>
> "Package webmin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source"
>
>   -- simon
>
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