Linux Having problem Installing Webmin on ubuntu

Hi guys,
Am being having problem installing webmin and am stuck with this message:

sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:


The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libio-pty-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.10.1
perl: Depends: perl-base (= 5.10.1-8ubuntu2.3) but 5.8.8-12ubuntu0.8 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

theses are the instructions i used to install webmin on unbuntu headless 12.04

Install Webmin on Ubuntu 12.04 Server | Joel McCune

i justed edited the sources files not created a new one

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It appears you have an old version of Ubuntu (8.04?) - your best option is always to download the debian package from webmin.com and let the installer worry about the dependencies.

That way you can run multiple libraries of different versions.

As it is, if you try to fix these dependencies you'll likely end up with a bricked system!

Hi Reni,
I follow the steps by Joel McCune but was stuck in step 2. and i even an error message, just dont know what am doing !

Hi HIM HER,
yes, am running Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS,

do you think i can get Ubuntu install on version or its not possible? please help

Webmin

Should have everything - just install

Him Her said:

Webmin

Should have everything - just install

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Can you please point me to a tutorial that i can follow as am having a real tough time to install this application.

Here - Webmin

If you have a problem, make sure you did:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

before trying the install. If you still get errors it's a distribution upgrade - not trivial if, as I suspect, you're still on 8.04

Him Her said:

Here - Webmin

If you have a problem, make sure you did:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

before trying the install. If you still get errors it's a distribution upgrade - not trivial if, as I suspect, you're still on 8.04

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Hi mate,
I run the command and i obtained the following result;

W: Failed to fetch 404 Not Found 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]


W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
webmin: Depends: libnet-ssleay-perl but it is not installed
Depends: libauthen-pam-perl but it is not installed
Depends: libio-pty-perl but it is not installed
Depends: apt-show-versions but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

Any solution the above?

You still haven't confirmed your Ubuntu version? 8.04 went out of support in April 2011 (Desktop) so the repositories have been removed.

Him Her said:

You still haven't confirmed your Ubuntu version? 8.04 went out of support in April 2011 (Desktop) so the repositories have been removed.

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yes, I have version 8.04,

I also have this error as well:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of webmin:
webmin depends on libnet-ssleay-perl; however:
Package libnet-ssleay-perl is not installed.
webmin depends on libauthen-pam-perl; however:
Package libauthen-pam-perl is not installed.
webmin depends on libio-pty-perl; however:
Package libio-pty-perl is not installed.
webmin depends on apt-show-versions; however:
Package apt-show-versions is not installed.
dpkg: error processing webmin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
webmin

My question is that can Webmin actually work on Ubuntu version 8.04 ?

TBH, I don't know, it's so old! Why don't you upgrade?

Him Her said:

TBH, I don't know, it's so old! Why don't you upgrade?

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Ok- Can i upgrade from 8.04 to latest version with out affecting my current set up?

murphy24 said:

Ok- Can i upgrade from 8.04 to latest version with out affecting my current set up?

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Most likely - if you can get the ISOs as you can't go direct to latest, you'd have to do several upgrades one after the other.

You can get back to 10.04 here - Ubuntu Releases