[Samba] 2 samba's?

[Chris Tooley]

It's probably safest to remove the rpm's and re-install them if you need
them.

rpm -e --allmatches <package-name>

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 00:01, Elliot wrote:
> Ok guys, I looked that the files associated with those 2 packages. It
> does seem to conflict with my source samba.
> 
> 
> Wish me luck guys... Hope nothing goes wrong.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]
> On Behalf Of Elliot
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:10 PM
> To: 'Jay Ts'
> Cc: 'Samba Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: [Samba] 2 samba's?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When I do a rpm -qa | grep samba I get the 2 results. Stated below.I get
> the feeling that perhaps I did not uninstall properly or something? ...
> Please help
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Ts [mailto:jay at jayts.cx]
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:05 PM
> To: Elliot
> Cc: Samba Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Samba] 2 samba's?
> 
> 
> Elliot wrote:
> > Hi guys, I am currently running samba 2.2.5. My mandrake actually came
> 
> > with Samba. Not sure which version it was. I didn't think I would need
> 
> > it so I uninstalled it long time ago using the rpm -e option. So after
> 
> > a while I changed my mind and downloaded the tar.gz version of samba
> > 2.2.5. I am currently running it. Everything seems to be working fine.
> 
> > So one fine day I decided to check on the packages installed in my
> > system and it came up with this.
> >
> > samba-client 2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk
> > samba-common 2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk
> 
> Exactly what method did you use to get this?  Try:
> 
> rpm -qa | grep samba
> 
> and what do you get as output?  I'm not running Mandrake here (yet) but
> on my Red Hat Linux box, I get no output, because I uninstalled the
> bundled Samba and installed from source.
> 
> > Now the question guys is ..... WHAT SHOULD I DO? ... Should I remove
> > those packages? If I do , will I be harming my system? Will my tar.gz
> > version samba be crippled? ... Please help!
> 
> If you leave the Samba rpms installed and then download/compile/install
> the source code release, you actually do not have to remove the
> installed rpms.  But, you need to make sure that the smb script in
> /etc/init.d will start the copy you want to use.  Generally, it's less
> confusing if you remove the installation you don't want to use.  That
> way, if Samba is running, you know it's the installation you want, and
> not the other one.
> 
> Jay Ts
> 
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