[nylug-talk] Debian Etch - Samba packages

[Ezra Taylor]

A Mike:
            I'm installing the smbclient now without any problems.
You should expect some dependency problems if your running Etch and
trying to install packages designed for Sarge.  Also, Sarge is still a
good version of Debian.

Ezra

On 4/1/07, Michael Bubb <michael.bubb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all -
>
> Wanted to get some perspective from the list. Our company uses Debian for
> Samba servers - recently we changed from 'stable' to 'testing' for our
> platforms (not sure exactly why... one reason might be better support for
> SATA) I am running into issues when instlling the samba and related
> packages. Namely smbclient is looking for the stable version of
> samba-common. I get the 'unsolved dependencies/ broken package' error
>
> I went ahead and ran a stable package install:
>
> apt-get -t stable install samba samba-common smbclient
>
>
> and it installed. I am not sure if this was advisable - it seemed like the
> best way to get it up and running.
>
> Will I break it the next time I run apt-get upgrade?
>
> Should I pin it in the /etc/apt/sources.lst?
>
> What is a recommended way of managing this?
>
> I have pasted the relevant output below.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Michael
>
> PS Output
>
>
> My kernel: 2.6.18-4-686
>
>
> The original error:
>
> server:~# apt-get install smbclient
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  Building dependency tree... Done
>  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.
>
>  Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
>  the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
>  that package should be filed.
>  The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
>  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>    smbclient: Depends: samba-common (= 3.0.14a-3sarge4) but 3.0.24-2 is
>  to be installed
>  E: Broken packages
>
>
>
> The stable install:
>
> beaker:~# apt-get -t stable install samba samba-common smbclient
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   libcupsys2-gnutls10 libgnutls11 libreadline4 libtasn1-2
> Suggested packages:
>   gnutls-bin samba-doc smbfs
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   libcupsys2 libtasn1-3-bin
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libcupsys2-gnutls10 libgnutls11 libreadline4 libtasn1-2 samba
> samba-common smbclient
> 0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 7608kB of archives.
> After unpacking 18.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main libtasn1-2 0.2.10-3sarge1
> [43.5kB]
> Get:2 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main libgnutls11
> 1.0.16-13.2sarge2 [302kB]
> Get:3 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main libreadline4 4.3-11 [140kB]
> Get:4 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main libcupsys2-gnutls10
> 1.1.23-10sarge1 [75.2kB]
> Get:5 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main samba-common 3.0.14a-3sarge4
> [1988kB]
> Get:6 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main samba 3.0.14a-3sarge4
> [2523kB]
>
> Get:7 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main smbclient 3.0.14a-3sarge4
> [2536kB]
>
> Fetched 7608kB in 43s (175kB/s)
>
>
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 19476 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing libcupsys2 ...
> Removing libtasn1-3-bin ...
> Selecting previously deselected package libtasn1-2.
> (Reading database ... 19447 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libtasn1-2 (from .../libtasn1-2_0.2.10-3sarge1_i386.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package libgnutls11.
> Unpacking libgnutls11 (from .../libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_i386.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package libreadline4.
> Unpacking libreadline4 (from .../libreadline4_4.3-11_i386.deb) ...
> Replaced by files in installed package readline-common ...
> Selecting previously deselected package libcupsys2-gnutls10.
> Unpacking libcupsys2-gnutls10 (from
> .../libcupsys2-gnutls10_1.1.23-10sarge1_i386.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package samba-common.
> Unpacking samba-common (from .../samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge4_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old directory `/var/run/samba':
> Directory not empty
> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old directory `/var/log/samba':
> Directory not empty
> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old directory `/var/cache/samba':
> Directory not empty
> Selecting previously deselected package samba.
> Unpacking samba (from .../samba_3.0.14a-3sarge4_i386.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package smbclient.
> Unpacking smbclient (from .../smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge4_i386.deb) ...
> Setting up libtasn1-2 (0.2.10-3sarge1) ...
>
> Setting up libgnutls11 (1.0.16-13.2sarge2) ...
>
> Setting up libreadline4 (4.3-11) ...
>
> Setting up libcupsys2-gnutls10 (1.1.23-10sarge1) ...
>
> Setting up samba-common (3.0.14a-3sarge4) ...
>
> Setting up samba (3.0.14a-3sarge4) ...
> Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/samba ...
> Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd.
>
> Setting up smbclient (3.0.14a-3sarge4) ...
>
>
>
> --
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>
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-- 
Ezra Taylor