Help In Setting Up Webmin + Virtualmin On My LAMP VPS

[artwales]

I have an above average experience in shared web hosting and just a little in Linux, so i might need a little hand holding on this.

I decided to subscribe to a LAMP VPS account majorly to save cost and to have a little experience on how to set up a VPS server.

My first task was to set up Webmin + Virtualmin on the server

First, I attempted to update the debian 5 OS using the ff command:


apt-get update

I got a series of errors saying something about source or was it repository not found.

I went ahead anyway to try to install webmin:


wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.580_all.deb
dpkg --install webmin_1.580_all.deb

Got an error, something about dependencies. I typed in the ff:


apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl apt-show-versions python

No luck. I had to wrap things up.

Basically, i need to someone to spell things out in layman's terms on how to install Webmin + Virtualmin On My LAMP Debian 5 VPS server

[jeremya]

Hi there,
We had an issue with our Debian repositories recently that should now be cleared up. I would recommend retrying those steps using apt-get. Hope that helps!!

[jeremya]

I'm informed the issue is ongoing but we will be correcting it today. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[artwales]

Thank you for the feedback.

Please, will you be kind enough to leave a post here when the process is completed.

[jeremya]

It's been fixed on the host level, you can try it again. If for some reason the apt-get update doesn't work, try issuing the below command to manually update the repositories.

sed -i 's/\/\/\([0-9a-zA-Z\.\-]*\)\//\/\/archive.debian.org\//' /etc/apt/sources.list