[Samba] Removing partial Samba Install

Joel Hammer Joel at HammersHome.com
Mon Mar 4 20:20:13 GMT 2002


No guarantees here, but:
When you install from the tarball, everything by default winds up in
/usr/local/samba.
If you just remove that director (rm -rf /usr/local/samba will likely do
it. Be careful.)
Then, you may even have your old installation available, if you haven't
removed it.
Joel


On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:44:40PM -0800, Dan Hempy wrote:
> Hello everyone:
> 
> Being a newbie, I'm extending myh education via trial
> and error.
> 
> When I originally installed Red Hat Linux, I believe
> that Samba version 2.0.3-8 was installed. In fact,
> when I now query rpm for Samba, the response indicates
> the above mentioned version.  A while back, I
> downloaded the latest version of Samba (2.2.2) and
> dutifully tried to install it. I issued the commands
> as per the docfile, and my PC chugged along for a
> while and then came the message tha said something to
> the effect that I needed the latest version of RH
> Linux in order to run this version of Samba. OOPS! 
> Now the Samba web admin tool thinks that V2.2.2 is
> installed but RPM thinks that 2.0.3-8 is installed and
> I cannot get Samba to run.  It does not find the
> config file in the old loc ation and when I copy it to
> the new location, a bunch of the params are not
> recognized.




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