How to install webmin

[D-Dan]

I honestly couldn’t see how to post on the blog post (so please tell me if I’ve missed it) but surely https://forumite.co.uk/how-to-install-webmin-on-linux-mint/ is overkill.

I haven’t used Mint for a long while, but on both Arch and Debian it was just a straight forward install, and the dependencies are taken care of.

I would expect “sudo apt-get install webmin” to take care of everything on Mint?

Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.

[Ed P]

Not on Synaptic so you probably have to follow the more complex procedure given in the blog or  here.

Mint make some very strange choices with respect to what is in or out of their repository. I suspect it is adhering to its idiot-simple choices and webmin got kicked out because of the difficulties that many have when setting up Samba.

[RSB]

At that time mint was not in the list of supported Os’s and would fail on install and that was the work around. So no, it’s not over kill.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[D-Dan]

Wow. I didn’t know Mint got fussy. You live and learn.

Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.

[RSB]

Mint was not fussy it was actually webmin/virtualmin that refused to install.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

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