xubuntu 12.04 and webmin

[Chuck Peters]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:

> HI,
> I installed xubuntu as guest in vmware (works like a charm only don't use
> Easy Install) and it runs reasonably stable.
> However, first I was annoyed by the ubuntu software center that shows me a
> list of advertisements which is IMO very much against Open Source
> etiquette. I became much more annoyed when I couldn't find my standard
> management tool Webmin in the repositories. I found a lot of useless and
> buggy applications and many superfluous or old.
> Luckily Gkrellm ( one of my most valuable tools) is still in the
> repository and it is 2.3.5 which is reasonably recent.
> So why is one of the best admin tools not in the repositories?
> (Maybe Oliver Grawert knows the answer?)
> Joep
>

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WebMin

The main reason it isn't in Ubuntu is the package was not maintained in
Debian and the Debian Developer who had been maintaining it requested its
removal a few years ago.  It appears you can get a deb from webmin.  I have
no idea how well it is maintained and I wouldn't consider using it myself
without further research.  It can be dangerous to allow an application like
webmin to modify files.


Chuck
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