[CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

Fri May 29 16:12:43 UTC 2009
JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 12:03 -0400, JohnS wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 15:31 -0400, David Dreggors wrote:
> > Phil Schaffner wrote:
> > > Apropos http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo
> > > 
> > > Suggested changes (mostly nit-picky :-) ...
> > > 
> > I had another suggestion, and this fits in the nit picky range as well :)
> > 
> > 
> > You have the user paste all those lines into a file and the make it 
> > executable and then run it... a lot of un-needed steps.
> > 
> > Try this, (I have tested and it works great):
> > 
> > Copy this code [without the <code> tags but do include the parenthesis ]
> > 
> > <code>
> > (echo "[Webmin]
> > name=Webmin Distribution Neutral
> > baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum
> > enabled=1" >/etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo
> > rpm --import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
> > yum -y install webmin)
> > </code>
> > 
> > Now instruct them to paste this right in the console, and press enter... 
> > done!
> ----
> Taht's a lil silly... Why not use wget http://....url/..rpm then execute
> the rpm to install it? All the code is nice for advanced users but it
> needs to be else where. 50% of linux users out here don't know what
> php-cli is...
> 
> JohnStanley
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Hmm that want work to good as there even is not a yum configuration
package for the webmin repo! Imagine that, a yum repo and no yum config
package? I don't like that. I did not realize that.