This article was last reviewed for Debian 9 (Stretch).
Webmin installation (Debian, upstream download)
| Author: | Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson |
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| Written in: | English (United Kingdom) |
Webmin is a popular, free and open-source web-based server management software. This article will demonstrate how to install Webmin on Debian or its derivatives such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
Installation
The dependencies of Webmin can be installed from the repository using APT:
root@computer:~# apt --assume-yes install apt-show-versions libauthen-pam-perl libio-pty-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libpam-runtime openssl perl python
Webmin can be downloaded from upstream using GNU Wget:
root@computer:~# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.850_all.deb
Once Webmin has been downloaded it can be installed using dpkg:
root@computer:~# dpkg --install webmin_1.850_all.deb
Conclusion
The package file can be removed after the installation is completed:
root@computer:~# rm webmin_1.850_all.deb
The output file can be removed after the installation is completed:
root@computer:~# rm /webmin-setup.out
The output file contains information about the installation process and is created every time Webmin is updated.
The configuration directory should be protected:
root@computer:~# chown --recursive root:adm /etc/webmin/ root@computer:~# chmod --recursive 0770 /etc/webmin/