Install Webmin on Ubuntu

September 13th, 2009 | 2 Comments

For the latest version visit www.webmin.com and amend the shortcut in step 2 to the relevant version.

Get logged into your server via SSH and use the following 3 commands:
Step 1:

cd /usr/src

Step 2:

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.500_all.deb

Step 3:

rpm -i webmin-1.500-1.noarch.deb

You may need to do the following steps if not successful:

Run the following as some modules may not be installed:

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

If you get errors about it not finding these packages, then enable the universe repositories:

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

remove the # from the universe and multiverse lines and save.

Then update the repository settings:

sudo apt-get update

Run the following to unpack & install:

sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.500_all.deb

IT support bod with an interest in web design.

craig prunty says:

January 29, 2010 at 8:04 pm

Thanks for this worked a treat just had to find newer links as version had changed. Its miles better for managing my VPS and the VPS hosting company wanted £10 to install it!!

1 – cd /usr/src

2 – wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.500_all.deb

I then had to run the following as some modules wasn’t installed:-

3 – apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl
and

4 – Then ran the following to unpack & install:-

5 – sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.500_all.deb

for anyone wanting the newer version as well
Martin says:

February 23, 2010 at 3:07 pm

Thanks for that Craig – I’ve amended this now so its all right in the original article.