Hi, folks
I am unable to install Virtualmin GPL in an Ubuntu 10.10 running 'in the cloud'. It has been runnning perfectly OK until last friday night, but it went amok due to a packages update (the hour I did it!) that broke my sites.
Every time I rebuid the system and I try to reinstall Webmin, Virtualmin and Usermin, I am unable to install Virtualmin in any way: Fresh install with or without Webmin and/or Usermin... No way.
Last time, I read again the Virtualmin FAQ and I started from a fresh install and then I did:
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
# wget http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh
# sh install.sh
But, when I run the install script, I got this "Unable to locate usermin package" and I cannot get ayn further.
The root/ virtualmin-install.log says:
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:15:40 - Started installation log in /root/virtualmin-install.log
DEBUG - 2010-12-01 17:15:40 - Install mode: full
DEBUG - 2010-12-01 17:15:40 - Product: Virtualmin GPL
DEBUG - 2010-12-01 17:15:40 - Virtualmin Meta-Package list: virtualmin-base
DEBUG - 2010-12-01 17:15:40 - install.sh version: 1.0.4
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:15:40 - Checking for fully qualified hostname...
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:15:40 - Hostname ogedei is not fully qualified.
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:10 - Hostname OK: fully qualified as server.ogedei.com
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:10 - Primary address detected as 95.142.165.249
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:10 - Entry for IP 95.142.165.249 exists in /etc/hosts.
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:10 - Updating with new hostname.
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:10 - Installing serial number and license key into /etc/virtualmin-license
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:10 - Loading OS selection library...
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:11 - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/oschooser.pl Succeeded.
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:11 - Loading OS list...
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:11 - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/os_list.txt Succeeded.
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:11 - Operating system name: Ubuntu Linux
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:11 - Operating system version: 10.10
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:11 - Configuring package manager for Ubuntu Linux 10.10...
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:11 - Enabling universe repositories, if not already available...
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:11 - Disabling cdrom repositories...
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:13 - Cleaning up apt headers and packages, so we can start fresh...
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:13 -
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:13 - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/apt.conf.noninteractive Succeeded.
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:13 - Installing Webmin and Virtualmin package signing keys...
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:13 - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin Succeeded.
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:14 - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-webmin Succeeded.
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:14 - OK
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:14 - OK
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:14 - Hit
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:14 - Removing Debian standard Webmin package, if they exist (because they're broken)...
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:14 - Removing Debian apache packages...
DEBUG - 2010-12-01 17:16:14 - Reading
INFO - 2010-12-01 17:16:14 - Installing dependencies using command: /usr/bin/apt-get --config-file apt.conf.noninteractive -y --force-yes install postfix postfix-pcre webmin usermin ruby libapache2-mod-ruby libxml-simple-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl unzip zip quota
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
FATAL - 2010-12-01 17:16:15 - Fatal Error Occurred: Something went wrong during installation: 0
FATAL - 2010-12-01 17:16:15 - Cannot continue installation.
FATAL - 2010-12-01 17:16:15 - Attempting to remove virtualmin repository configuration, so the installation can be
FATAL - 2010-12-01 17:16:15 - re-attempted after any problems have been resolved.
FATAL - 2010-12-01 17:16:15 - Removing temporary directory and files.
Any idea, pretty please (I am a total noob in Linux, by the way).
Thanks a lot :)
Gustavo from Madrid
Howdy,
Well, whenever you run that install script, one of the things it mentions is the distributions and versions that Virtualmin is supported on... and unfortunately, Ubuntu 10.10 isn't one of the ones Virtualmin supports :-)
The Virtualmin installer only supports the Ubuntu LTS releases, such as version 10.04. Those are supported for a longer time, and are more suited for servers.
My recommendation would be to use Ubuntu 10.04 as your base OS, rather than 10.10. With that, it should install without any trouble!
Alternatively, you could do a manual installation, but that's rather complex and takes some time to get up and running :-) However, you can find instructions for that here:
http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/installation/manual