Deepak Shrestha wrote:
Thanks for the some detailed advice. I will give it a try. Right now now I am trying to install the new rpm package with upgrade version but it doesn't like. I want to uninstall all previous installed pacakages but my rpm query only shows the samba packages. If I try to upgrade the samba-common package, it shows the error that current version of samba-common is needed by the currently running samba. Can you give some steps on how did you upgraded to new version of samba? Do I need to stop the samba server first? or rpm package know how to do it itself? Why can't I just upgrade the rpms? rpm -Uvh doesn't work. Do I need wipe out the current samba entirely before I will install the new package? Thanks a lot!
I ran into the same problem when I first tried to upgrade. First you will need to uninstall the old samba. When I did that though, it complained of dependency from samba-config-samba. I looked at samba-config-samba and decided that I didn't really need the gui so I uninstalled that too. After it was uninstalled, you can then go ahead and uninstall fedora's samba.
Before I installed samba 3.0.20 though, I had to install samba-common (from samba's site, of course) first. Once that's done, you can installed samba 3.0.20.
You can stop samba first to be safe but I think rpm will do that for you. Hope that helps.
