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Unable to identify operating system

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andy_sfnet
2013-10-14
2021-05-15
  • andy_sfnet

    andy_sfnet - 2013-10-14

    I want to install Webmin on Korora 19.1 https://kororaproject.org/korora-19-1-released/ korora-19.1-x86_64-gnome-live.iso .

    I tried Using the Webmin YUM repository and Installing the RPM.

    Both ways I get a message:

    rpm -U /home/xxx/Downloads/webmin-1.660-1.noarch.rpm
    Unable to identify operating system
    Fehler: %pre(webmin-1.660-1.noarch) Scriptlet fehlgeschlagen, Beenden-Status 2
    Fehler: webmin-1.660-1.noarch: installieren fehlgeschlagen

    Both ways installation fails.

    How to install webmin on Korora 19.1 ?

    Regards

    AW

     
  • andy_sfnet

    andy_sfnet - 2013-10-18

    Installation with webmin-1.660.tar.gz successful. Please add Fedora remix Korora to list of known operating systems.

    /etc/issue contains:

    Korora release 19 (Bruce)
    Kernel \r on an \m (\l)

    Regards

    AW

     
  • Kayvan Sylvan

    Kayvan Sylvan - 2015-01-03

    Seeing the same issue with Pidora (Fedora 20 remix for the Raspberry Pi) right now.

    [root@pidora ~]# rpm -Uvh webmin-1.730-1.noarch.rpm
    Preparing... ################################# [100%]
    Unable to identify operating system
    error: %pre(webmin-1.730-1.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
    error: webmin-1.730-1.noarch: install failed

    [root@pidora ~]# rpm -qp --scripts webmin-1.730-1.noarch.rpm > SCRIPTS

    And then inspecting the pre/post scripts, it's easy to see that the problem is with the
    way the scripts try to match the Linux version.

    On Pidora, /etc/redhat-release contains "Pidora release 2014 (Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix)"

    So, I moved that over to /etc/redhat-release- and make /etc/redhat-release contain
    the usual "Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)"

    Then...

    [root@pidora ~]# rpm -Uvh webmin-1.730-1.noarch.rpm Preparing... ################################# [100%]
    Operating system is Fedora Linux
    Updating / installing...
    1:webmin-1.730-1 ################################# [100%]
    Webmin install complete. You can now login to http://pidora.local:10000/
    as root with your root password.

    And then I moved /etc/redhat-release- back to /etc/redhat-release.

    Seems to work!

     
  • gandolf

    gandolf - 2015-01-03
     
  • rj elleray

    rj elleray - 2015-01-03

    Gus,

    i think they identified the issues to do with the 1.730 release which needs additional files added in order to identify their respective OSes and thus support them (as they are deriviatives of already supported OSes).
    d.

     
  • Harris

    Harris - 2018-09-15

    Hello There, I installed webmin on OpenSuse 15 leap , but I am getting error" unable to identify operating system" when trying to install usermin 1.740, any idea how to work around it

    thank you in advance

     
  • Danard Franck

    Danard Franck - 2021-05-15

    Good

     

    Last edit: Danard Franck 2021-05-15

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