How to install Webmin on Gentoo // Crucial Paradigm

February 25, 2009

How to install Webmin on Gentoo

To install Webmin on a new installation of Gentoo, you can do the following:

Sync your list of available packages:

emerge –sync

Upgrade/Install Portage:

emerge portage

Install Webmin

emerge webmin

Start Webmin

/etc/init.d/webmin start

If you want Webmin to start automatically when your server/VPS boots:

eselect rc add webmin default

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 4:31 pm

ross, on August 19th, 2009 at 6:01 pm

If you get the following message after running ‘emerge webmin’, (or something similar)

“These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies… done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy “app-admin/webmin” have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:”

Then you need to add the line:

~app-admin/webmin-1.480

to the file etc/portage/package.keywords

then run ‘emerge webmin’ again.