How to Install Webmin 1.580 on Fedora 16 Using RPM

Webmin is a freeware program that provide web-based interface for system administration and system configuration tool for administrators. With Webmin you can setup user accounts, DNS, file sharing and etc. In this post, i will show how to install Webmin on Fedora 16 server using RPM version. This steps may also working on other versions such as Fedora 14 and fedora 15.

Download required RPM file here (http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/)

[root@fedora16 ~]# wget http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm
--2012-04-07 21:45:46--  http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm
Resolving download.webmin.com... 67.228.198.100
Connecting to download.webmin.com|67.228.198.100|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 17112780 (16M) [application/x-rpm]
Saving to: âwebmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpmâ

100%[==========================================================>] 17,112,780  62.8K/s   in 3m 3s

2012-04-07 21:48:51 (91.1 KB/s) - âwebmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpmâ

Install RPM version of Webmin as below :

[root@fedora16 ~]# rpm -Uvh webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm
warning: webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 11f63c51: NOKEY
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
Operating system is Fedora Linux
   1:webmin                 ########################################### [100%]
Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://fedora16.ehowstuff.local:10000/
as root with your root password.

Start Webmin service :

[root@fedora16 ~]# service webmin start

https://fedora16.ehowstuff.local:10000/