Rocky-Linux is alive!

wget http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh ;
chmod --verbose  700   ./install.sh ;
./install.sh ;    

hi - i tried changing vm_version=6 to vm_version=7 and 'vm_version=8` & running with same results.

next i tried downloading and running: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/virtualmin/virtualmin-install/master/virtualmin-install.sh

that certainly got me a lot farther along. the script ended with:

Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
: Success.
Spin pid is: 15127
Username/Password Authentication Failed.
Downloading virtualmin-release-latest.noarch.rpm: [2021-05-18 12:40:50 EDT] [ERROR] Failed with error: 6
[2021-05-18 12:40:50 EDT] [ERROR] Something went wrong. Exiting.
[2021-05-18 12:40:50 EDT] [ERROR] The last few log entries were:

i am trying again on a fresh install. perhaps there were traces of the first several attempts, but i am just guessing.

EDIT: identical results using fresh install - using both ./install.sh as well as
./virtualmin-install.sh. :persevere: