Shell script to perform a Virtualmin GPL or Professional installation
If you just want to install Virtualmin, go here and follow the instructions: Virtualmin.com.
This repo is for people who want to read the source, contribute, help make the installer support other distros or operating systems, or make a customized installer.
The script relies on our software repositories on software.virtualmin.com in order to function. You'll need internet access.
It sets up or downloads the software repository configuration file for your OS (yum/dnf on RHEL (Alma/Rocky/Oracle/CentOS/Fedora) or
apt-get on Debian/Ubuntu), and runs the necessary commands to download and install all of the stuff needed for a
Virtualmin web hosting system. This is includes OS-standard packages or MySQL or MariaDB, Postfix, Dovecot, procmail,
Mailman, PHP, Python, Ruby, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, BIND, and many others. When no OS-standard package is available or
the standard package needs tweaks, we provide it in our repository and fetch it from there.
The Grade A systems currently supported by install script are:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives
- RHEL 8 and 9 on x86_64
- Alma and Rocky 8 and 9 on x86_64
- CentOS 7 on x86_64
Debian Linux and derivatives
- Debian 10, 11 and 12 on i386 and amd64
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS on i386 and amd64
The Grade B systems currently supported by install script are:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives
- Fedora Server 38+ on x86_64
- CentOS Stream 8 and 9 on x86_64
- Oracle Linux 8 and 9 on x86_64
- CloudLinux 8 and 9 on x86_64
- Amazon Linux 2023+ on x86_64
- openSUSE Server 15 on x86_64
Debian Linux and derivatives
- Kali Linux Rolling 2023+ on x86_64
We strongly recommend you use the latest version of your preferred Grade A supported distribution. The latest release gets the most active testing and bug fixing.
Never run the install script on anything other than a freshly installed OS. It is for installation, not upgrading.
Download it to your server, and run it as root (yes, it has to run as root, this is systems management software).
# wget -O virtualmin-install.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/virtualmin/virtualmin-install/master/virtualmin-install.sh
# /bin/sh virtualmin-install.sh
Note that if you have Virtualmin Professional, the process is a little different (or you have to edit the script to add your serial number and key to the SERIAL and KEY variables on lines 19 and 20). You can retrieve your license information from the My Account ⇾ Software Licenses page at Virtualmin website. If you don't have Pro but want to get it, visit Virtualmin Shop.
Please file tickets, either here or at Virtualmin Forum, about bugs you find.
Wrap your head around how install.sh does its job (mostly by setting up package repositories and installed metapackages or yum groups). Ask questions if you're not sure what's going on.
Pick your favorite distro or OS, and start coding and packaging for it! I'm usually happy to devote time and resources to helping make Virtualmin work on other systems. I just don't have the time/resources to maintain more than the most popular server operating systems myself.
These are the tools the shell script uses to actually perform the installation and configuration. It sets up package repositories, installs the yum groups or the metapackages, and then uses Virtualmin-Config to perform the initial configuration steps, like turning on services, making service configuration changes, etc.
Virtualmin-Config: a post-modern post-installation configuration tool
virtualmin-yum-groups: Package groups for CentOS and Fedora
virtualmin-lamp-stack-ubu: Metapackage for the LAMP stack on Ubuntu
virtualmin-core-deb: Metapackage for the Virtualmin core packages