Webmin - Web based interface for system administration

Webmin is a powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel, written in Perl. See the Webmin website for more info.

This respoitory contains the source of the Turnkey Linux Webmin Debian packages.

Source package notes

Webmin upstream provide a Debian package (maintained by Jamie Cameron, lead Webmin dev) but unfortunately, or not - depending on your preference, it includes all modules in the one package.

In the spirit of keeping TurnKey images as lean as possible, this Debian package source repository creates a minimal core webmin package and individual webmin-<plugin> packages. Which supports only installing the relevant Webmin plugins.

TurnKey Webmin source repository includes:

• Webmin "core" source code from upstream "webmin-minimal" tarball - unpacked to webmin_core - unmodified source
• Webmin plugin source code from upstream full "webmin" tarball - individual plugin source unpacked to module/<name>/theme/<name> as relevant - unmodified source; only plugins supported on Debian are included
• 'buildsrc' update script:
  • check for upstream updates
  • download, verify and unpack source tarballs to relevant locations (unrequired source discarded)
  • generate updated debian/control file
• plugins_deb_rules.sh script - to generate plugin Debian package source on the fly - called by debian/rules at build time
• use of Debian quilt system during package build to apply TurnKey specific patches to original unmodified Webmin source code

Note that this repository was significantly refactored in 2025. For details of the changes, please see docs/UPDATE.2025.md. The legacy TurnKey Webmin source with full git history can be found in the turnkey/webmin-archive repository.