[plug] Installing Webmin

[Ben Jensz]

When using rpm, you can also append the "-v" option to make it verbose in
running whatever task you've issued to it.

I usually install RPMs like this:

rpm -ivh some-rpm-file.rpm

That installs it verbosely and prints hash marks across the terminal session
to show its progress.  I like to know more of whats going on, unlike in
Windows which tells you some non-descriptive thing such as "Updating system
settings..."

If you're trying to install something and you _know_ that you've got all of
the dependencies installed and its still complaining about something, you
can tell it to ignore dependencies by typing --nodeps on the end of the RPM
command you've issued.


/ Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leon Brooks" <leon at brooks.fdns.net>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Installing Webmin


> Joel Fraser wrote:
> > I am trying to install webmin on one of my Redhat 7.1 sever
> > machines and it says that webmin cannot be installed. I alos
> > have a machine that has the same Redhat 7.1 and it installed
> > fine. Does anyone have any clus why it wont install. I also
> > have the same problem for Linuxconf.
>
> Generally, and unlike many Windows apps, the software will give you a
> reason _why_ it won't install, which is quite helpful for diagnosis. If
> the RPM manager you're using doesn't do this, use a different one - but
> meanwhile, try this from the command line as root:
>
>    rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/webmin-(tab)(enter)
>
> It will likely complain about missing dependencies, which are other
> packages which webmin relies upon and must have installed before or with
> it. Use rpm -i as above but put in the names of the dependencies, then
> try webmin again.
>
>