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I'm just trying to set up webmin as the first thing on a new VPS, I'm familiar with Ubuntu (it's my main work machine).

This is what's on the VPS

Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 8.5 (jessie)

Release:    8.5

Codename:    jessie

So I follow the instructions to download and install virtualmin:

wget http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh

sudo /bin/sh install.sh

It starts well but eventually fails:

[INFO] Started installation log in /root/virtualmin-install.log

▣□□ Phase 1 of 3: Setup

Installing extra dependencies for Debian 8                              [  ✔  ]

Downloading apt.gpg                                                     [  ✔  ]

Adding GPG key for PHP7 packages                                        [  ✔  ]

Downloading RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin-6                                    [  ✔  ]

Downloading RPM-GPG-KEY-webmin                                          [  ✔  ]

Installing Virtualmin 6 key                                             [  ✔  ]

Installing Webmin key                                                   [  ✔  ]

Updating apt metadata                                                   [  ✔  ]

Downloading repository metadata                                         [  ✔  ]

Disabling cdrom: repositories                                           [  ✔  ]

Cleaning out old metadata                                               [  ✔  ]



▣▣□ Phase 2 of 3: Installation

Installing Webmin                                                       [ERROR] Failed with error: 100

[  ✘  ]



[ERROR] Something went wrong. Exiting.

[ERROR] The last few log entries were:

Reading state information...

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.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:



The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 webmin : Depends: libauthen-pam-perl but it is not installable

          Depends: libio-pty-perl but it is not installable

          Depends: apt-show-versions but it is not installable

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Here's what sources.list looks like

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib

deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib



# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'

# A network mirror was not selected during install.  The following entries

# are provided as examples, but you should amend them as appropriate

# for your mirror of choice.

#

#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib

#deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib

deb http://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/gpl/apt virtualmin-jessie main

deb http://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/gpl/apt virtualmin-universal main

So then I try to install a missing package (and get the same rsponse for every missing package):

sudo apt install libauthen-pam-perl

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Package libauthen-pam-perl is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source



E: Package 'libauthen-pam-perl' has no installation candidate

So, I try to add the repo that contains apt-show-versions (one of the missing packages):

sudo add-apt-repository ...

But that command (add-apt-repository) doesn't exist. So I try to load software-properties-common and that package cannot be located either.

How do I get out of this insanity and just get something loaded?

This is what I get for sudo apt update:

Hit http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-jessie InRelease                                                   

Hit http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-universal InRelease                                                

Hit http://packages.sury.org jessie InRelease                                                                    

Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease                 

Hit http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-jessie/main amd64 Packages

Hit http://packages.sury.org jessie/main amd64 Packages                                    

Get:1 http://packages.sury.org jessie/main Translation-en_GB [169 B]                       

Get:2 http://packages.sury.org jessie/main Translation-en [169 B]                         

Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Sources                         

Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Sources                                      

Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages                                  

Get:3 http://packages.sury.org jessie/main Translation-en_GB [169 B]                               

Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib amd64 Packages                                                    

Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Translation-en                                   

Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en                                      

Get:4 http://packages.sury.org jessie/main Translation-en [169 B]                

Hit http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-universal/main amd64 Packages                         

Get:5 http://packages.sury.org jessie/main Translation-en_GB [169 B]

Get:6 http://packages.sury.org jessie/main Translation-en [169 B]                  

Get:7 http://packages.sury.org jessie/main Translation-en_GB [169 B]

Get:8 http://packages.sury.org jessie/main Translation-en [169 B]                  

Get:9 http://packages.sury.org jessie/main Translation-en_GB [169 B]            

Ign http://packages.sury.org jessie/main Translation-en_GB                             

Get:10 http://packages.sury.org jessie/main Translation-en [169 B]

Ign http://packages.sury.org jessie/main Translation-en        

Ign http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-jessie/main Translation-en_GB

Ign http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-jessie/main Translation-en

Ign http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-universal/main Translation-en_GB

Ign http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-universal/main Translation-en