New Install Download Errors

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Hi All,

I am new to CLi based linux so forgive me if I use incorrect terms or commands, but I am learning.

I need to config a web proxy server for the office. So ideally I want to use Squid running on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS. As this will be the first Ubuntu server I need to manage, I would like to get a GUI interface installed, and Webmin has a popped up a few times. I have located a number of documents about the installation process, yet I am having a problem I cannot find the solution to online.

When running sudo apt-get update, I get the following output.

Ign:1 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge InRelease
Get:2 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge Release [14.9 kB]
Get:3 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge Release.gpg [173 B]
Get:4 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge/contrib amd64 Packages [1,380 B]
Get:5 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge/contrib i386 Packages [1,380 B]
Fetched 15.1 kB in 1s (9,072 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch http://download.webmin.com/download/repository/dists/sarge/Release Unable to find expected entry 'contribdeb/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Has anyone come across this in the past, are you able to help or point me in the right direction. Do I even need to use Webmin with a Squid installation?

thanks

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Hi Again,

After more research, I was able to get it installed using

curl -L -O http://www.webmin.com/download/deb/webmin-current.deb
dpkg -i webmin-current.deb

Not sure what the difference is yet, but its working.