Okay, its not exactly hard to install cPanel with just a few commands in SSH to set it going. However, after many installs there is one thing you should do before you start that install, get friendly with ‘screen’.
The screen command will let the install continue if your SSH session should drop out, meaning you don’t waste time starting again.
So, before you start with install, fire up your yum, your apt-get or whatever command line and install screen
Now for the install:
Type screen to start a screen session
and now you can run the install script from cPanel:
cd /home wget -N http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest sh latest
The install should now start – it will say it will be done in 70 minutes…..in my experience it takes a lot longer than that so grab a coffee or find something else to do!