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Old post. Originally published 6 May 2011 on the WordPress version of this site.
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Webmin installation problems
I’m just in the middle of setting up a new server for testing and thought I would go with Webmin to act as the manager just to make things nice and simple.
Following the guide here as I have done multiple times in the past I came up with an error.
[root@ftp ~]# rpm —import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc error: http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc: import read failed(0).
I have to admit not having seen this before but did find a work around I thought I would share.
- Open up http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc in your browser and copy the output
- Login to your server and go to a temp location for me it was /tmp
- Create a new file (I use nano, but use whatever you normally do, pico, vi etc) PRE1 and then paste in the key you copied from the browser. Save the file and exit.
- From the CLI then enter PRE2
- Voila GPG key installed and you can now use yum to install webmin!
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