Samba upgrade failing

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at Infinity-ltd.com
Wed Apr 19 19:23:26 GMT 2000


On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Ray Ellington wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to upgrade my RedHat Linux Samba installation from 2.0.3-8
> to 2.0.6-11.
> When I do a
> rpm -Uvh samba-common-2.0.6-11.i386.rpm (which is needed before the
> samba-2.0.6-11.i386.rpm I take it) I get the following error messages:
> 
> error: file /etc/smb.conf from install of samba-common-2.0.6-11
> conflicts with file from package samba-2.0.3-8.
> 
> I get that message for about six files.
> 
> Yet if I try to first try
> rpm -Uvh samba-2.0.6-11.i386.rpm I get the message:
> 
> samba-common = 2.0.6 is needed by samba-2.0.6-11
> 
> This is catch 22!  Do I need to uninstall the old version first?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ray Ellington
> 
> --
> 
Try something like:
rpm -Uvh samba-2.0.6-11.i386.rpm samba-common-2.0.6-11.i386.rpm

That way you are upgrading both at the same time.

Mikkel




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