Ubuntu
samba package

  1. Bug #550022
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 550022

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Doug Morse (dm-dougmorse) wrote :

Hi,

I'm still not completely clear on what the problem is, but (surprisingly) the following fixed the problem for me.

sudo apt-get purge samba-common-bin
sudo aptitude download samba-common-bin
sudo dpkg -i samba-common-bin_2%3a3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6_i386.deb
sudo rm -f samba-common-bin_2%3a3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6_i386.deb

In other words, installing the samba-common-bin package manually with dpkg worked just fine, whereas installing via apt-get did not. Before finding this work around, I did try the same and similiar approaches with aptitude / apt- get (i.e., for me at least, it definitely is the case that, no matter what I did, installing with apt-get or aptitude failed with the same error, regardless if I was reinstalling or installing after a remove or after a purge).

HTH,
Doug