Installing Webmin - dpkg: unable to access dpkg status area

Question

I was able to install webmin before the openssl update on Amazon, but I had to uninstall it. I then had the openssl update when I received the email from Amazon. Today, I am trying to install webmin again:

sudo wget http://www.webmin.com/download/deb/webmin-current.deb
sudo dpkg -i webmin-current.deb

But then this error shows up:

dpkg: unable to access dpkg status area: No such file or directory

I have been able to install dpkg:

sudo yum install dpkg

-because earlier I was having this error: sudo dpkg command not found

I have been able to enter sudo yum update and sudo yum upgrade, but I'm still having the error while trying to install the webmin-current.deb

I have been googling all day and I haven't found a solution to my problem yet. Please help.

Answer 1

Dude ! You are installing a deb package using yum. You should use an rpm package for yum (RedHat/CentOS/Amazon Linux).

You should use a deb package if your distro is Debian or Ubuntu.

You want:

wget http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/webmin-1.680-1.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -ihv webmin-1.680-1.noarch.rpm