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Problem with installing webmin on dsl-4.4.10

Hello,

I have running damn small linux 4.4.10 on an Thin Client. The first problem with the automaticly starting of the ssh daemon is now solved. But I have the problem, that i can't install Webmin. I have downloaded the dpkg extension for damn small linux but i get errors, wenn i install the debian Webmin.

This was the errors:

Code:

dsl@0[dsl]$ sudo dpkg --install webmin.deb

dpkg: regarding webmin.deb containing webmin, pre-dependency problem:

 webmin pre-depends on perl

  perl is not installed.

dpkg: error processing webmin.deb (--install):

 pre-dependency problem - not installing webmin

Errors were encountered while processing:

 webmin.deb

Then I have try to install perl but then i get another errors:

Code:

sudo apt-get install perl

Reading Package Lists... Done

Building Dependency Tree... Done

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.



Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that

the package is simply not installable and a bug report against

that package should be filed.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:



The following packages have unmet dependencies:

  perl: Depends: perl-base (= 5.6.1-8.9) but 5.8.0-18 is to be installed

E: Broken packages

Sorry for my bad english then i was from switzerland.

Thank you for the help!

Benj

Welcome to the forums Benj, your English is fine!

DSL is an old, outdated, dead project... I highly recommend installing a modern, supported distro such as as Debian, Slackware, Ubuntu, TinyCore, etc.

The error in this case is likely because the package webmin.deb that you are trying to manually install was not designed for DSL 4.4.10. Its "dependencies" are not being satisfied (wrong version of perl). I do not know how to resolve this error because DSL is out of support.

Hi Snowpine,

Thank you, it's only School english :)

I use DSL then it was running perfectly on my Thin Client. The problem was, the Thin Client has no strong hardware. I've downloading now Debian. I hate my slow Connection ^^. I hope that Debian was running on the Thin Client. When Debian didn't run on the Thin Client, then i was testing slackware.

Thank you for your help, snowpine.

Benj

Ok, when debian and slackware don't run on the system then i try this :) Yeah it was durin 5minutes and then was the download of debian finished ^^.

Thank you for your help. You are welcome.

Benj

You're welcome and good luck! :)

Hello,

Sorry for the late Reply. I've now returnt to Damn Small Linux. It was running as the best on the thin client. The other distributions dosn't run on the Thin Client. I think the i586 architectur ist the Problem. But hey, i can life without webmin. While the SSH Server and File Server running ist the most good ^^

I thank you anyway for the help!

Benj