Unable to Install licensed version on fresh server

Submitted by sfosseen on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 13:35

I had two drives fail on my Virtualmin server on a RAID 5 drive. I decided to install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. This is on a 32 bit HP DL380 G3 server. The Install and following upgrades installed without issue. I downloaded my install script from the /serial page and ran the script. I get the error message

Package Webmin is not available...

I did follow directions from another site and installed Webmin on the server and was able to get it to run, but the install script failed at trying to remove Webmin.

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Closed (fixed)

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Submitted by andreychek on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 13:41

The Install Script should (in theory) be able to remove Webmin... if not, that may be the issue.

You may want to try manually removing the Webmin package before running the installation again. You can do that with:

dpkg --purge webmin

You'd of course only want to run that if it's okay to remove Webmin and all it's config files, but that should get rid of it. If that doesn't work, let us know what error you get.

Submitted by Locutus on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 13:41

Hellos!

Please allow an advice from a fellow user. :) The recommended way to install Virtualmin - if you have that option, which seems to be the case for you - is to install it on a fresh system, with just the plain OS on it - no Webmin or other server packages preinstalled.

For Ubuntu 10.04 (which I use too), it works best to select only the SSH daemon during installation, then immediately (after doing update via Aptitude) download the Virtualmin install script from the serial numbers page and execute it. The script will install everything needed - Virtualmin, Webmin, Usermin, all servers like Apache, BIND Postfix etc.

Submitted by sfosseen on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 13:56

I originally installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS with no add-ons. I Did install Webmin as a recommendation on a web post I found.

I have since re-installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS again with no add-ons, but I did sudo apt-get update and upgrade

I am getting the same error: Package webmin is not available....

What I ran from the command line was sudo /bin/sh install.sh

Also if I try sudo apt-get install webmin I get the same error message Package webmin is not available....

I also found some info that I should update my sources.list file, but I have not tried that yet

Submitted by sfosseen on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 14:08

Attached is my Install log. This is from a fresh copy of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, No additional software installed.

Submitted by Locutus on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 14:08

If you intend to install Webmin standalone, you need to add the appropriate repository to sources.list, yeah that's true.

The Virtualmin installer though should do that automatically. It might help to check ~/virtualmin-install.log for any errors concerning repository availability or similar.

Submitted by Locutus on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 14:14

Yeah, there is obviously some error during activation of the Virtualmin repositories or signature keys.

INFO - 2010-11-08 13:48:55 - Installing Webmin and Virtualmin package signing keys...
INFO - 2010-11-08 13:49:01 - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin Succeeded.
INFO - 2010-11-08 13:49:06 - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-webmin Succeeded.
INFO - 2010-11-08 13:49:06 - OK
INFO - 2010-11-08 13:49:07 - OK
INFO - 2010-11-08 13:49:08 - Err

Though I can't say what went wrong there... Figuring that out I'll have to leave to the development team. :)

Submitted by sfosseen on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 14:41

If it is an activation problem I suspect I have a procedure I missed or doing wrong. I am trying to use the same serial number that was on this server before the HD failure. Do I have to do something to release the key for reuse on a new server?

Submitted by sfosseen on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 15:40

It could have been just me.

I was able to install the GPL version without an issue. I am currently in the process of upgrading that install to PRO. I suspect I may have fat fingered the Licenses Key when I downloaded my Pro install script. It did take me two times to get it right in the Upgrade dialog box anyway.

Submitted by sfosseen on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 15:41

It could have been just me.

I was able to install the GPL version without an issue. I am currently in the process of upgrading that install to PRO. I suspect I may have fat fingered the Licenses Key when I downloaded my Pro install script. It did take me two times to get it right in the Upgrade dialog box anyway.