This isn’t a HOW-TO. It’s a HOW-I-DID. It’s the chronicle of the afternoon of a day in my life. It’s not advice. It’s just shooting the breeze.
HARDWARE
Lenovo ThinkCentre M83 Tiny Desktop Computer
Intel Core i5 4590T 2.0GHz Processor
8GB DDR3-1600 RAM
512GB SSD
Intel HD Graphics 4600
Hey, I got it cheap refurbed. It makes a handy testing server and uses very little power.
What I Did
Installed Minimal Oracle Linux in graphical mode with Developer box checked
Rebooted
Checked that the following Oracle repos were enabled:
- Base OS
- Appplication Stream
- CodeReady Builder
Installed Oracle EPEL:
yum install oracle-epel-release-el8
Installed and Enabled Fedora EPEL repo:
dnf -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
Manually Installed CentOS GPG key as /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centosofficial
:
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Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)
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Created /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-PowerTools.repo
:
[powertools]
name=CentOS Stream $releasever - PowerTools
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-8/8/BaseOS/x86_64/os/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centosofficial
Enabled PowerTools:
dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools
Impersonated CentOS:
Changed content of /etc/redhat-release
to CentOS Linux release 8.3.2011
Installed Virtualmin
The above resulted in a successful Virtualmin installation with no errors. It does depend on one CentOS 8 repo, which is problematic, but may resolve itself over time. Otherwise the Stream repo probably can be substituted.
This is just experimentation. If you’re looking to play around with it, it will save you a bit of aggravation. But I wouldn’t put it into production use.
Richard