I often use Webmin and Virtualmin to manage basic stuff on Linux servers, mostly so because others sometime need to change minor settings on these servers, and they may or may not be very familiar with doing things from the CLI.
You can, of course, update Webmin and Virtualmin manually, from within Webmin. But if you’re using APT, there is an automated, better, way of keeping these lovely software packages up to date.
Webmin
Create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ like webmin.list
Add the following line to that file:
deb https://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib
Add Jamie Cameron’s GPG key for the repository like so:
cd /root wget https://download.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc apt-key add jcameron-key.asc
Finalize everything with
apt-get install apt-transport-https apt-get update
You may now install/update Webmin with via APT (apt-get, aptitude, etc).
Virtualmin
Create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ like virtualmin.list
For Ubuntu 18.04.LTS (“Xenial”), add the following to that file:
deb http://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/gpl/apt virtualmin-xenial main deb http://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/gpl/apt virtualmin-universal main
There are, of course, sources available for other distributions too. Simply replace xenial above, with the name of the distribution you’re running. You can find a list of the Debian based distributions here: software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/gpl/apt/dists/
Add the virtualmin GPG key for the repository like so:
cd /root wget http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin-6 apt-key add RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin-6
Finalize everything with
apt-get update
You may now install/update Virtualmin via APT (apt-get, aptitude, etc). You can find some more information about this in relation to Virtualmin on the Virtualmin forum.
I need to do this on Ubuntu 18.04. By mistake I installed virtualmin 3.922 and lost all my configuration. I cannot believe how incredibly difficult it is to find a tutorial on how to update virtualmin. It should be the first thing coming up, when you search in the Virtualmin documentation. But no mention of it anywhere…. Do you have any tips please??
Ouch, that doesn’t sound like fun.
Did you run the Virtualmin installer? I think I’ve made that mistake once too.
What is it that you need tips for? I don’t think there’s any way to “undo” the Virtualmin installation that you may have run. My post simply outlines how to add Webmin and Virtualmin repositories to your distribution so that you can update them by means of using APT or APTITUDE.
I was looking at your link for other distributions but couldn’t find ubuntu.
I’m simply looking for a way to update my virtualmin installation to the latstest version. That should not be so difficult, but I cannot find any guide that works. That’s why I ended up downgrading instead of upgrading, someone had posted the wrong information…
1. How did you install the current Virtualmin you’re using?
2. How did you install the current Webmin you’re using?
3. What distribution (and version) are you using?
1. if my notes are correct, I followed this tutorial to install webmin and virtualmin:
https://www.webmin.com/deb.html
but I had to change some steps to make it for Ubuntu.
2. same as above. apt list –installed shows:
webmin/stable,stable,now 1.970 all [installed]
but no mention of virtualmin
3. Ubuntu 18.04
So then you should be able to follow my instructions for Virtualmin and add it to the repositories and then do: apt update, followed by apt-get dist-upgrade.
thanks joho, the problem is fixed.
for Ubuntu 20.04 Virtualmin use this:
deb http://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/gpl/apt virtualmin-focal main
deb http://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/gpl/apt virtualmin-universal main
then:
sudo apt update