Saturday, September 8, 2012

Installing Webmin on Ubuntu

Webmin is a perfect way to administer an Unix or Linux server. Some say it is too easy, and we, IT guys, should never stoop to it!

Hope nobody ever reads these words: I use Webmin a lot. If you are also lazy and of low moral standards, you may install it on Ubuntu using this simple instructions:


1. Download the latest webmin from http:www.webmin.com .
wget http://www.webmin.com/download/deb/webmin-current.deb

2. Execute webmin package. It will fail but it’s easier for us, since we’ll just force installing dependencies, rather than installing them one by one.

sudo dpkg -i webmin-current.deb

3. Install missing dependencies and it will automatically recompile webmin

sudo apt-get -f install

Enjoy webmin on https://[serverIP]:10000 .