On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Ray Ellington wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to upgrade my RedHat Linux Samba installation from 2.0.3-8
> to 2.0.6-11.
> When I do a
> rpm -Uvh samba-common-2.0.6-11.i386.rpm (which is needed before the
> samba-2.0.6-11.i386.rpm I take it) I get the following error messages:
>
> error: file /etc/smb.conf from install of samba-common-2.0.6-11
> conflicts with file from package samba-2.0.3-8.
>
> I get that message for about six files.
>
> Yet if I try to first try
> rpm -Uvh samba-2.0.6-11.i386.rpm I get the message:
>
> samba-common = 2.0.6 is needed by samba-2.0.6-11
>
> This is catch 22! Do I need to uninstall the old version first?
>
> Thanks,
> Ray Ellington
>
> --
>
Try something like:
rpm -Uvh samba-2.0.6-11.i386.rpm samba-common-2.0.6-11.i386.rpm
That way you are upgrading both at the same time.
Mikkel