#5332 Webmin for Windows failing to install

[Eduardo Reyes]

I tried to install Webmin for Windows and got the folowing message:

D:\webmin>setup.bat
Helper Script to install Webmin on Windows
(c) gnadelwartz https:://gitbub.com/gnadelwartz
.
Perl is not installed! Please download it from
https://www.activestate.com/activeperl/ and install it!
.
Required process.exe is not installed! Please download it from
http://retired.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm and xopy it to C:\Windows!
.
Webmin can not installed becasue of missing depedencies!
.
Press any key to continue . . .

This suggests that Webmin is hardcoded to use ActivePerl and in my case, I am using Strawberry Perl so I duplicated the setup.bat as setup2.bat and modified the last by setting perl_path64 environment variable to the path of the Strawberry Perl binary (C:\Strawberry\Perl\bin).

After that I ran the new batch script and and the Perl program was found but then got a different error as shown below:

D:\webmin>setup2.bat
Helper Script to install Webmin on Windows
(c) gnadelwartz https:://gitbub.com/gnadelwartz
.
Perl64 detected
Required process.exe is not installed! Please download it from
http://retired.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm and xopy it to C:\Windows!
.
Webmin can not installed becasue of missing depedencies!
.
Press any key to continue . . .

Would you please advise?

[Ilia]

Hi,

We don't really support Windows. Even though you could install it, it might not and wouldn't be nowhere stable. Webmin is meant to be run on Linux primarily.

[Eduardo Reyes]

Why to have a Windows version then? Kind of makes not sense.

I essentially use Linux but wanted to give it a try to the Windows version.

On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 4:06 AM Ilia Rostovtsev rostovtsev@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

Hi,

We don't really support Windows. Even though you could install it, it
might not and wouldn't be nowhere stable. Webmin is meant to be run on
Linux primarily.

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• [bugs:#5332] https://sourceforge.net/p/webadmin/bugs/5332/ Webmin for
  Windows failing to install*

Status: open
Group: 1.930
Created: Sat Dec 14, 2019 06:53 AM UTC by Eduardo Reyes
Last Updated: Sat Dec 14, 2019 06:53 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

I tried to install Webmin for Windows and got the folowing message:

D:\webmin>setup.bat
Helper Script to install Webmin on Windows
(c) gnadelwartz https:://gitbub.com/gnadelwartz
.
Perl is not installed! Please download it from
https://www.activestate.com/activeperl/ and install it!
.
Required process.exe is not installed! Please download it from
http://retired.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm and
xopy it to C:\Windows!
.
Webmin can not installed becasue of missing depedencies!
.
Press any key to continue . . .

This suggests that Webmin is hardcoded to use ActivePerl and in my case, I
am using Strawberry Perl so I duplicated the setup.bat as setup2.bat and
modified the last by setting perl_path64 environment variable to the path
of the Strawberry Perl binary (C:\Strawberry\Perl\bin).

After that I ran the new batch script and and the Perl program was found
but then got a different error as shown below:

D:\webmin>setup2.bat
Helper Script to install Webmin on Windows
(c) gnadelwartz https:://gitbub.com/gnadelwartz
.
Perl64 detected
Required process.exe is not installed! Please download it from
http://retired.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm and
xopy it to C:\Windows!
.
Webmin can not installed becasue of missing depedencies!
.
Press any key to continue . . .

Would you please advise?

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[Kay]

hi,

you are referring to my unofficial helper script which try to automate the a Windows setup for less experienced users, for the official information how to install on Windows see here:
http://www.webmin.com/windows.html

may be I should include this explanation into the script.

Kay

[Eduardo Reyes]

Hi,
Any particular reason for requiring ActivePerl?
I have several applications running unchanged on Strawberry Perl
http://strawberryperl.com/ which is simpler than ActivePerl and includes
the gcc compiler and 'make', which allows me to take advantage of the
standard Perl toolchain in installing CPAN modules; the CPAN installers, or
just downloading the tarball, unpacking it, and performing the make, make
test, make install mantra.

BTW the link to process.exe
http://retired.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm in
step in http://www.webmin.com/windows.html is broken.

On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 4:06 AM Kay kay@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

hi,

you are referring to my unofficial helper script which try to automate the
a Windows setup for less experienced users, for the official information
how to install on Windows see here:
http://www.webmin.com/windows.html

may be I should include this explanation into the script.

Kay

• [bugs:#5332] https://sourceforge.net/p/webadmin/bugs/5332/ Webmin for
  Windows failing to install*

Status: open
Group: 1.930
Created: Sat Dec 14, 2019 06:53 AM UTC by Eduardo Reyes
Last Updated: Sat Dec 14, 2019 09:06 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

I tried to install Webmin for Windows and got the folowing message:

D:\webmin>setup.bat
Helper Script to install Webmin on Windows
(c) gnadelwartz https:://gitbub.com/gnadelwartz
.
Perl is not installed! Please download it from
https://www.activestate.com/activeperl/ and install it!
.
Required process.exe is not installed! Please download it from
http://retired.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm and
xopy it to C:\Windows!
.
Webmin can not installed becasue of missing depedencies!
.
Press any key to continue . . .

This suggests that Webmin is hardcoded to use ActivePerl and in my case, I
am using Strawberry Perl so I duplicated the setup.bat as setup2.bat and
modified the last by setting perl_path64 environment variable to the path
of the Strawberry Perl binary (C:\Strawberry\Perl\bin).

After that I ran the new batch script and and the Perl program was found
but then got a different error as shown below:

D:\webmin>setup2.bat
Helper Script to install Webmin on Windows
(c) gnadelwartz https:://gitbub.com/gnadelwartz
.
Perl64 detected
Required process.exe is not installed! Please download it from
http://retired.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm and
xopy it to C:\Windows!
.
Webmin can not installed becasue of missing depedencies!
.
Press any key to continue . . .

Would you please advise?

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[Kay]

https://github.com/webmin/webmin/pull/1155

[Kay]

https://web.archive.org/web/20180105215524/http://retired.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm

[Kay]

Fixed: https://github.com/webmin/webmin/pull/1157

Will also try if I can install it with strawberry perl ...