I installed a fresh Ubuntu 7.04 distribution, and I'm having troubles installing Webmin. I got webmin_1.350_all.deb
from the webmin site, and tried the Webmin package from webmin.com and followed what they suggested:

dpkg --install webmin_1.350_all.deb

I got lots of missing dependencies:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of webmin:
webmin depends on libnet-ssleay-perl; however:
Package libnet-ssleay-perl is not installed.
webmin depends on openssl; however:
Package openssl 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 libmd5-perl; however:
Package libmd5-perl is not installed.


So I tried apt-get --update and the step they suggested for installing the dependencies:
apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl

But it just gave lots of errors that it couldn't find most of these things:
Package libauthen-pam-perl is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package libauthen-pam-perl has no installation candidate
Package libmd5-perl is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package libmd5-perl has no installation candidate


Am I doing something wrong here? Do I have to go searching around for more packages for these things and hope that they don't have missing dependencies of their own? Has anyone had any luck getting this to work on a Linode Ubuntu distribution?

Honestly, all I really want is something that I can get working that supports PHP 5 as close to out of the box as possible. I have a redhat 9 distribution working pretty well, but the php is too old and I don't want to have to rebuilt everything and cross my fingers that I don't break any interdependencies. But I've been having lots of trouble getting even basic things like webmin working on other fresh distributions.

I got webmin to work on Debian Etch, which is one of the distributions you can install using the "Deploy a Linux Distribution"-link from the dashboard. I too had to install some packages that webmin depended upon, but all of the packages installed on the first try. If you look at the below link, you can see that Debian probably supports php5 out of the box.

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/sear ... elease=all

Yeah, everything installed much more smoothly on Debian, and I was able to get everything working there, so I'm going to go with that as my primary distribution.