Installing webmin

I have just done my first Debian install on my Dockstar. Everything went pretty well, no problems, except that when Debian booted up, for some reason, it got a different DHCP address from the built-in dockstar linux. It took a while before I realized I hadn't bricked it.

My question is this: I changed my /etc/atp/sources.list to a site more local to me: as follows:

deb http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian squeeze main

When I try to apt-get install webmin, I get a message saying "Unable to locate package webmin". Do I just have a bad repository, or are there additional lines I need in the sources.list file?

Webmin hasn't been part of the Debian distro for several years (see http://bugs.debian.org/343897), but there seems to be a .deb package available on the project's home page. I have no experience with it myself.

Shaywalters Wrote:
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> I have just done my first Debian install on my
> Dockstar. Everything went pretty well, no
> problems, except that when Debian booted up, for
> some reason, it got a different DHCP address from
> the built-in dockstar linux
> .....
This is always the case for me. It's normal.
Not sure about the webmin part. Why do you need to reinstall it?

Thanks for the info. I was afraid I had configured something wrong. I am very new to this and was wanting to install webmin to see if it offered features I could use. I comes installed standard on Turnkey Linux, which I have used a couple of times, so I figured it was worth investigating.

-Shay

I found this information from
http://www.webmin.com/deb.html

It works find for me.

If you like to install and update Webmin via APT, edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file on your system and add the line :

deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib

cd /root
wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
apt-key add jcameron-key.asc 
apt-get update
apt-get install webmin

Hi - I'm a genuine total noobie - new to debian, new to linux (and new to dockstart)... I've learned a lot in the past few days... but, i'm still quite ignorant...

I installed webmin and it works fine - it's quite an interesting tool; but every time I reboot debian/dockstar i have to start it manually (issue '/etc/webmin/start' from root). this is somewhat of a pain. I know there must be a way to make it startup on boot - i've tried the 'link' in webmin itself but 'no joy'.

Does anyone have any suggestions or links.

Thanks,

- Ray



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/25/2010 03:46PM by sandbasser.

apt-get install webmin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package webmin

sandbasser Wrote:
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> I know there must be a way to make it
> startup on boot - i've tried the 'link' in webmin
> itself but 'no joy'.

Have you looked at the webmin entry in the Bootup and Shutdown module? Is Webmin set to start at boot?

This is a pretty old thread :)

Anyways, here is a quick webmin tutorial I just put together - http://blog.qnology.com/2014/11/debian-on-pogoplug-tutorial-webmin.html