alpine Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 I've just setup a lamp server with ubuntu 606 and i'm trying to install webmin.No success - if i use the .deb file and run the package installer i get an error "Dependency is not satisfiable: libauthen-pam-perl"downloaded the mentioned package but i have no clue how to install it, i have the package on the desktop.Anyone care to help a linux noob on this ?tried the webmin website and it seems so easy installing - yet it wont work for me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukdmbfan Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Check to see if yum is installed by going into a terminal and typing yum <enter> - if you get a load of version/help information, it's installed. Then you can run yum install libauthen-pam-perl to install that package's binaries automatically.If not, try and find an RPM of that package, which will do all of the work for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine Posted December 17, 2006 Author Share Posted December 17, 2006 Thanks,yum is giving "command not found" so i guess it's not.RPM webmin is an RPM suitable for Redhat, Caldera, SuSE, Mandrake or MSC Linux so i guess i cannot use that ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine Posted December 17, 2006 Author Share Posted December 17, 2006 ok - still searching - feeling soo nooob here, alot of "howto's" out there but none seem to solve my case.Any good alternative to webmin ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine Posted December 17, 2006 Author Share Posted December 17, 2006 Horray ;Dby following the exellent "howto" located at [url=http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-7507.html]http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-7507.html[/url] no problems occurred!webmin installed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 ok - the webmin was genuine crap in my oppinion, if i can't get a better interface than that i might aswell stick to BASH commands.I guess it isn't other interface to help a linux noob in the server world for the first time?For instance, i want ftp but i dont know how to get it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukdmbfan Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 It's just a web interface for common administrative tasks on Linux, targetted towards web server administration. It doesn't come with everything built in - for that you'll need to buy something like WHM. You'll still need to install a lot of the servers and daemons required, webmin is just an easy interface for managing those programs once they're installed - although it will also install some of them for you if you visit the server page for a particular program.It's an excellent free interface for managing a linux server when you don't have X window access to it (such as a VPS/Dedicated Server via SSH) which is all it's supposed to be - you can't just sit back, install it and wait for it to do everything for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 I'm not expecting everything to be dumped in my lap at all, rather looking for an understandeable way of getting into it as a server-newbie. The webmin is NOT easy for a newbie in my sence - if your more familiar with servers i guess it may be a tool, but not for me. I Just didn't like it at all. <opinion>period</opinion>Going back to BASH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukdmbfan Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 That's the point, it's not really a replacement for the shell, it's just once you've got everything installed and setup it's a way of managing web services and linux administration tasks through a web interface instead of the shell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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