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How to just download Virtualmin? I want to run it with --help to see the options, but all I can find are automatic install scripts.
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as virtualmin is a module of webmin I would guess you need to install webmin first then add the virtualmin module
that works on an installed system anyway
You can’t run Virtualmin with --help.
You can run the Virtualmin install script (virtualmin-install.sh) with --help, and you can download it from the Download page on the website.
Virtualmin, a complete install, includes the virtualmin command, which you can get help from, but you can’t run it without installing Virtualmin, because virtualmin is a CLI for Virtualmin, which is a web application.
You should not do that.
obvious, but the OP asked how to do it. But that said you can do it that way and are prepared to set each managed server in the way virtualmin expects.
it appears to
While you are correct in that Virtualmin is a module of Webmin, the recommended method to install Virtualmin is NOT to install Webmin first and then Virtualmin.
This is how Virtualmin should be installed - via the automated installer:
This is the official, de jure method of installing Virtualmin.
That’s the point, there isn’t such a link on the download page that this idiot can find.
Better yet, is there a list of the install options?
I don’t know how we can make it more clear. You click “Download” from anywhere on the Virtualmin.com website, and then click the big button that says “Download Virtualmin GPL”.
Yes, and it auto runs the installer so how do it with --help?
Just run the installer with --help rather than no arguments
Downloading a file does not automatically run it!
No one is telling you to copy-paste the command to download and run the installer in one (which is below the button we are telling you to click). We are telling you to click the link to download the file or right-click and copy the link and use your favorite download command to download it to your server (wget or curl -O). That link is the big button that says “Download Virtualmin GPL”. That is a direct link to the install script that you can download.
For example:
wget https://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/virtualmin-install.sh
Then run it:
/bin/sh ./virtualmin-install.sh --help
This is also covered in the more complete installation documentation: Automated Installation | Virtualmin — Open Source Web Hosting Control Panel
That link dumped it onto my desktop Windows PC, I wanted a link that I could download it to a Linux server. I am trying to automate, not that I want to make a lot of servers, but so I can replicate the install next time I want to do it - which may be often while I am testing new stuff out.
I wasn’t being clear in my request.
But being this much trouble just to get a list of install options - yeah, nah.
Thanks anyway, I appreciate that you guys tried to help.
Has anybody got a list of what the options are?
Long shot, but I am testing using sendmail and am curious if there are any install options that might be relevant - though I suspect not.
I have already answered your question.
Please re-read this comment: How to just download Vmin? - #13 by Joe
There is no install option for Sendmail, because there is no reasonable argument for using Sendmail for 99.9% of users. We would be doing our users a disservice to make it seem like a reasonable choice (not because Sendmail is particularly bad, but because there is nothing Sendmail can do that can’t be done with Postfix and Postfix is generally easier and much more broadly supported and documented).
Sendmail would only be a reasonable choice for quite advanced users very familiar with Linux and the command line. And, even then, it would probably not be a reasonable use of someone’s time to switch.
I would encourage you to start from what you’re trying to accomplish that makes you think you need Sendmail, and ask about that, as I’m certain Sendmail is not the best answer for you. You should ask about that problem in a new topic, of course, as this one has been answered several times (and is completely answered by our installation documentation).
The install script options have already been posted in this thread (in a screenshot jimr posted very early in the thread), and they’re also shown in the installation docs I linked you to in this comment (which is in an accessible text form, if a screenshot doesn’t work for you).
I’ve removed a whole bunch of off-topic discussion, please stay on topic, y’all. This is a question about downloading the Virtualmin install script and options for the Virtualmin install script, and it has already been answered multiple times by multiple folks in multiple ways, and the correct installation documentation is:
And, for more complicated questions, like what options are available (and what --help shows when you run it):