I have used Webmin before as a better replacement to cPanel and the other web hosting control panels. Not just that it is free, but it's ease of use.

So I decided to install it on my mini-mac today. I have learned so much about my own system in 20 minutes! More than in the last 8 months I have owned the mini.

I would strongly recommend this administration front end to any one who has a computer. It works on almost all of them it seems. Requires only perl be installed.

Doing this before you get frustrated really helps:
ppm repo add theory58S
That adds updated and sometimes otherwise unknown packages to the possible packages you can run.

Another item is if you just run ppm you get the GUI interface, that doesn't lead to what really needs to get done. CLI is the way to go.

Bugzilla is written in perl. It can be downloaded here http://www.bugzilla.org/download/

You need to have a web server. I personally like MAMP.

As mentioned it is in perl. So, when you run 'checksetup.pl' you will get a list of things you need to install. You install these things with CPAN, today I found a way to always be running 'sudo make' instead of just make. If you ain't sudo, you ain't going to be happy.

at shell prompt:
sudo cpan
then you enter:

o conf make_install_make_command 'sudo make'
o conf commit
q

That should help!
These are the things I need to install!

GDGraph: /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'install "GD::Graph"'
GDTextUtil: /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'install "GD::Text"'
Template-GD: /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Template::Plugin::GD::Image"'
GD: /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'install "GD"'
Email-Reply: /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Email::Reply"'

Perl is a great tool for scripting and developing applications.

This is the page dedicated to the Perl programming languages.

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