Re: [webmin-l] Kickstart and Webmin

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

Shauna Ryall wrote:
> Howdy - I am about to use RH's kickstart to rollout Linux onto our
> school's student workstations - and I will be using Webmin to help with
> the admin. Is there a way to get kickstart to automatically install
> Webmin?

There's a trick to it, because Webmin requires perl to install and some 
other weirdness.  All ugly.  I believe Webmin is now more easily 
packaged correctly (I seem to recall noting that Jamie had made some 
changes to the install procedure to make it more suitable to a 
non-interactive, pre-defined installation, but maybe not), but the RPM 
from webmin.com is not suitable for ks installation.  So it can't be 
dropped into the RPMs dir alongside other packages, unfortunately.

Anyway, I used to do it in postinstall by getting it from a webserver 
with wget, and then installing.

Nowadays, I do it postinstall by grabbing yum (an automagic RPM tool) 
and installing a package that depends on all of my extra stuff (Webmin, 
Squid, lots of custom Webmin modules, my theme, etc...).
-- 
Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...>
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