[Samba] Installation of Samba 4.3 on Ubuntu Server 15.04 failed

[Rowland Penny]

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On 06/10/15 09:20, mathias dufresne wrote:
> That's why I insisted to advise users to not just run ./configure but 
> rather ./configure --help or directly 
> ./configure --enable-fhs --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc 
> --localstatedir=/var.

Running './configure --help' is one thing, putting everything into the 
places that a distro package would is another and one I cannot recommend.

>
> Yes it pushes stuff into /usr and others system folders but it avoid 
> newbies to have PATH issues. And anyway most of them are too afraid to 
> upgrade their samba once it's installed, so the argument about upgrade 
> is not really valid to me who's using only VM for systems hosting 
> services...

Yes, there is the path problem, but it is a one off thing, once set 
correctly, you do not need to set it again.
New users can then refer to the Samba wiki and reliably expect the info 
there to be relevant to their setup. As to upgrading to a newer version, 
this is very easy, you just need to compile the new version and install 
it over the old version, you do need to stop samba before running 'make 
install' and of course, back everything up first, but you would do both 
of these however you upgrade.

>
> Anyway, have a nice day ;)
>
>

I always do :-)

Rowland