Topic: Samba upgrade fails: initscripts >= 5.54-1 is needed by

[Patrick]

Hello everyone,

I am attempting to upgrade Samba 2.2.2    to Samba 2.2.5-4 (using Darrell May's instructions      ), but I get the following error during install, and then a bunch of garbage after that:

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[root@bcsrv1 samba_2_2_5]# sh ./install.sh
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:libattr                ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:libacl                 ########################################### [100%]
error: failed dependencies:
        initscripts >= 5.54-1 is needed by samba-2.2.5-4
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
file /etc/e-smith/events/actions/conf-netlogon from install of e-smith-samba-1.2
.0-04dmc conflicts with file from package e-smith-loginscript-0.1-1
file /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/smb.conf/61netlogonshare from install of e-smith
-samba-1.2.0-04dmc conflicts with file from package e-smith-loginscript-0.1-1
file /home/netlogon/netlogon.bat from install of e-smith-samba-1.2
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This is SMEServer-5.0_Update4-03, so perhaps that is a problem.  I am not in a position to upgrade this machine to Ver 5.1.2, so I need to get this new Samba onto this machine.

Any ideas why I am getting this error?  Tips, suggestions?  Thanks.

Patrick

[Darrell May]

Patrick wrote:
> This is SMEServer-5.0_Update4-03, so perhaps that is a
> problem.

Yup.

> I am not in a position to upgrade this machine to
> Ver 5.1.2, so I need to get this new Samba onto this machine.

Then I suggest you leave samba alone until you are ready to upgrade.

Darrell

[Patrick]

Darrell,

Thanks...that's what I figured.  Guess it's time to upgrade.  Which brings me to several follow up questions then:

Which version should I choose to upgrade to, 5.1.2 or 5.5?  Seems like I have seen postings here about 5.5 issues, so maybe it would be better to move to 5.1.2 for now.

Since this v 5.0 machine was originally a 4.1.2 install - is an upgrade the best way to go, or should I do a clean install and then somehow migrate the user data and accounts onto the new installation?

Is there even a simple way to migrate user accounts and data to a clean install?

Patrick