Now that we have a fresh and clean Debian installation we can proceed to Webmin and Virtualmin installation.
Althou installing Apache, MySQL and other stuff needed for a web server by hand is not hard and you can find a lot of support I prefer installing Webmin and Virtualmin to ease the administrative tasks.
If you’re planning for a new server you should start with a fresh Debian installation with only the basic stuff on it.
Fast Debian installation of Webmin:
# wget http://www.webmin.com/download/deb/webmin-current.deb
# dpkg --install webmin-current.deb
You probably will miss some dependencies and will have to install them via ‘apt-get install‘. On my fresh Debian I was missing some perl modules so I did ‘apt-get install perl’, again dependecies missing, but with a ‘apt-get install -f‘ (as instructed) I solved it.