2.2. Installing the RPM Package
In the top-right corner of every Webmin website page is a link for the RPM package. A link can also be found on the page www.webmin.com/download.html. Once you have downloaded it, you should have a file on your Linux system named something like webmin-1.1.100-1.noarch.rpm. To install, run the following command as root:
rpm –U webmin-1.1.100-1.noarch.rpm
The RPM install can only fail if you do not have Perl installed, or if Webmin cannot identify your operating system. If that occurs and your Linux distribution is on the list of supported operating systems, you should install the tar.gz version instead. Because all Linux distributions are slightly different, the Webmin install process has to positively identify ...
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