Samba updates

[boiseneon]

I can't update samba from 3.0.14a to 3.0.20...anyone know why?

[Roxoff]

How are you trying to update? Yum? Apt? Downloaded RPM? What's failing?

[boiseneon]

I tried using a downloaded rpm and yum. but they won't upgrade it to the new version. It says there is a conflict with the old version.

[Roxoff]

Try this:

Save your samba config out somwhere (e.g. do 'cp -a /etc/samba/ /root/samba_backup')

Uninstall your current samba installation

yum remove samba

then reinstall with

yum install samba

Then either just copy your existing samba config back, or use diff to modify the new config to be like your old config.

[boiseneon]

ok tried that and this is what I got when I tried removing it

[root@localhost Jesse]# yum remove samba
Setting up Remove Process
No Packages marked for removal

[Roxoff]

you can do:

rpm -qa |grep samba

to find what the system thinks its samba installation is called. There'll probably be more than one package, so remove them all and re-install them at the highest version using yum, and it should all work.

[boiseneon]

this is the only problem that I had

[root@HomeServer Jesse]# rpm -e samba-common-3.0.14a-2
error: Failed dependencies:
libsmbclient.so.0 is needed by (installed) kdebase-3.4.0-5.i386
[root@HomeServer Jesse]#

what do I do now

[Roxoff]

Are you running this from KDE? If not, you can also remove the dependent packages too. Dont forget, they're all available through yum, so just keep a list and put em all back afterwards.

I had a situation on my laptop where it had installed both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of one of the KDE packages. I just uninstalled em both and updated the package again from yum - that sorted everything out for me.

[tom-tjtech]

I know its some time since this thread was started but just in case
you are needing the info...

There is no need to uninstall all the dependencies that appear when you
use rpm -e package-version
simply use the --nodeps option, so in the case of our Samba 3.0.14a use;

[root]# rpm -e samba-common-3.0.14a-2 --nodeps

also the original 'smb.conf' gets renamed to 'smb.conf.rpmsave', in /etc/samba.

Otherwise what Roxoff says works fine.