Debian9/stretch support

Howdy -- thanks for contacting us, and we're glad to hear you're interested in Debian 9!

We generally shoot for having distro support available shortly after it comes out.

Debian 9 has a lot of similarities to Ubuntu 16.04, so we'll likely be borrowing from the Ubuntu 16.04 section to get all that up and running.

And you're right we do indeed need to get the repo setup, I'll be talking to Joe about that shortly.

I'll also be writing up instructions on how to migrate from Debian 8 to 9, and that may very well be done before Debian 9 is available.

We historically have support for new distros available within a week of it being marked stable by the vendor (sometimes faster, rarely slower).

I've just released an entirely re-designed installer, however, that makes adding new distro support easier, but also makes it possible to install without using the install script...but, still getting a lot of the same benefits just by installing metapackages (on Debian/Ubuntu) or yum groups (on CentOS/Fedora). The idea being folks who want to work with distros we don't support would be able to do so by running their own repos and would only need a one or two line tweak to the install script itself (or to write their own Puppet or Chef or whatever recipe to do the install without the install script at all). That won't be necessary for Debian 9, however, as we'll be on top of that one quickly.

I've just made a video explaining the technical details of the new installer, some comments on how to add new distros and how to customize the install process, but haven't edited it or gotten captions done for it yet. Hopefully, it will be done in a day or two.

So...I think we can count this as you encouraging us to move fast on Debian 9 support when it goes stable? Is there something else to this, other than the question of whether it'll work if you dist-upgrade (it probably will, but might need some tweaking afterward)?

To be clear, with the new thing, you could probably just add the virtualmin-universal repo and the Debian 8 or Ubuntu 16.04 repo, and use apt-get to install the "virtualmin-lamp-stack" and "virtualmin-core" metapackages, and then use the virtualmin-config package to configure everything. That'd skip all the detection stuff and force it to use whatever distro you think matches most closely to the new version.

Those new repos are in https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/gpl/apt (or without the gpl for licensed installs). I'll be writing up documentation for a non-install.sh but still mostly automated install in a day or two.

When I try to update my Debian package list with the new source added, it complains that pub key D9F9010760D62A6B isn't present. I've added RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin and RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin to apt though.

Should I add another one?

Yes, there's a new vm6 key here: http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin-6

I'll be rolling new repo keys with each major version going forward, so we can keep up with key strength and so we can begin to retire keys that have been in use for something like 10 years.

I'll be working on Debian 9 support in the new VM 6 installer over the next couple of days now that it's been released. It should be supported pretty quickly, as most of the hard changes (systemd, mariadb 10, php7) have already been dealt with in other distros.

@joe is this documentation up yet or any news on an updated install.sh script ?

Hi, as asked before is there a timeframe for support on Virtualmin under Debian 9?

Thanks

@stelios read https://virtualmin.com/node/52613#comment-778825 it works, if you disable/remove firewalld after install