[Samba] Installing SerNet Samba for Debian

Wed Nov 20 09:36:27 MST 2013

Thanks very much for all the help.

I restored the server, then had another go.

I ran the ap-get update && upgrade first (nothing to update)
I also checked apt-get –f install (all okay)
I installed the sernet public key.
Then I created the sources list file for sernet

I ran ‘apt-get install sernet-samba’

It says there were dependencies in sernet-samba-common which had 
further dependencies in sernet-libwbclient0, so it didn’t install

I ran ‘apt-get install sernet-libwbclient0’ and it installed, but 
it also removed 16 other packages including gnome.  It did prompt 
to ask if I wanted to go ahead with the installation/removal– I 
said Yes, just to see what would happen.

I ran ‘apt-get install sernet-samba’ and that successfully 
installed.  

However, when I run ‘apt-get –f install’ it’s now showing a whole 
list of packages (around 200)which are no longer required, due to 
the packages it removed when installing sernet-libwbclient0.

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:17:48 +0000 "L.P.H. van Belle" 
<belle at bazuin.nl> wrote:
>Hello, 
>
>for debian you have 3 options for samba. 
>
>1) the debian stable ( now 3.6.6 ) 
>2) the debian backports, ( now 3.6.19 ) but it keeps inline with 
>the stable packages. 
>3) the sernet debian packages. 
>	for sernet its ok that all other things of debian samba are 
>removed. 
>
>If you look ( type ) apt-cache show sernet-samba
>you see these lines:
>Conflicts: samba
>Replaces: samba, samba-common (<= 2.0.5a-2)
>Provides: samba
>
>This prevents the debian samba to be installed. 
>
>Now, you choose.  
>
>wheezy stable     : apt-get install samba 
>wheezy backports  : apt-get install -t wheezy-backports samba 
>Sernet Samba      : apt-get install sernet-samba
>
>dont use dpkg -i unless your in real trouble. 
>
>for debian backports i have: 
>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-backports.list  contains 
># Backports repository
>deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main
>
>for sernet i have : 
>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/sernet-samba-3.list   contains 
># Sernet samba 3.6 repository
>deb http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/debian wheezy main
>
>and for sernet samba, first before the install type: 
>wget http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/sernet-samba-keyring_1.3_all.deb -O 
>/tmp/sernet-samba-keyring.deb
>dpkg -i /tmp/sernet-samba-keyring.deb
>rm /tmp/sernet-samba-keyring.deb
>
>the difference? 
>debian stable contains all security fixed up to the latest samba 
>3.6.x 
>debian backports, samba but also contains the upstream code of the 
>version supplied ( now 3.6.19 )
>sernet samba, has everything and it the latest, but it's has 
>sernet-  in front of the packages names to avoid conflicts. 
>
>
>Greetz, 
>
>Louis
>
>
>
>
>
>>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>>Van: samba1 at nym.hush.com 
>>[mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens samba1 at nym.hush.com
>>Verzonden: woensdag 20 november 2013 15:29
>>Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
>>Onderwerp: [Samba] Installing SerNet Samba for Debian
>>
>>I've got myself in a bit of a pickle trying to install the latest 
>
>>Samba 3.6.20-31 package from SerNet on a Debian Wheezy server.  
>The 
>>installed Debian version of Samba was 3.6.6.
>>
>>It's an off-line test server, and I'm still getting to grips with 
>
>>Debian, so no harm done, but I'd like to know the proper 
>procedure 
>>to install this software!  
>>
>>What I've done is:
>>
>>Edited /etc/apt/sources.list to include the line
>>
>>   deb http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/debian wheezy main
>>
>>This was shown on the SerNet website, but I'm not sure if I need 
>to 
>>do anything to prevent Wheezy from downloading/installing the 
>>Debian Samba in the future.
>>
>>I downloaded all the .deb packages from SerNet and burnt them 
>onto 
>>a CD.
>>
>>I then ran 'apt-get purge samba' (to try and remove the existing 
>>Samba).
>>
>>I started to run into problems when installing the SerNet 
>>package(s) and have also run 
>>
>>  apt-get remove samba-common
>>plus numerous iterations of 
>>   apt-get -f install
>>   apt-get autoremove
>>
>>At one point it wanted to remove about 200 packages, including 
>ones 
>>for gnome and python.
>>
>>I tried installing using:
>>  dpkg -i sernet-samba_3.6.20-31_amd64.deb
>>It then indicated it needed sernet-samba-common so I ran
>>  dpkg -i sernet-samba-common_3.6.20-31_amd64.deb
>>which gave warnings about dependencies.
>>I ended up trying to install all the sernet packages including 
>the 
>>ones for libwbclient, libsmbclient, libpam, winbind.  Is this 
>>necessary?  I expected one of the packages to do a full install 
>and 
>>update/install all necessary packages.
>>
>>Having now left it running for a few minutes I ran 
>> apt-get -f install 
>>again, and it updated sernet Samba and I'm now able to run 
>>smbstatus and it's showing '3.6.20-SerNet-Debian'.
>>
>>However, I'm now not sure what state the system is in!  I can run 
>a 
>>disaster recovery to restore the system to a state before I 
>started 
>>the Samba upgrade, but as I say, I'd like to know the proper way 
>to 
>>do it!
>>
>>Thanks
>>  
>>
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