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

Fri May 29 18:58:13 UTC 2009
JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 22:44 +0400, Vladislav Rastrusny wrote:
> What RPM? WebMin RPM? That will make you loose repository automatical
> updates advantage.
> 
> 2009/5/29 JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>:
> >
> > 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
> >
You did not bother to read the next mail I sent regarding this?