OK, so installed suse linux 6.4 and have a neat kde desktop. Now I have a smba cd from oreilly book publishing. If it was windows I pop the cd in, installshield starts, i reboot then, whammy, i have samba. Now I have to rpm or tar something..??? If somebody tells me how to install a program onto linux I will mail the first person with the most complete instructions $20. No joking, I just don't get it, installing a program in linux. Come to my office and give me two hours of linux lessons and I'll give you $30 ! no joking, serious offers only. I am a very experienced winnt,win9X service tech, and can fix about anything you throw me. kevin
At 01:19 AM 10/17/00 -0400, kevin brown wrote:>OK, so installed suse linux 6.4 and have a neat kde desktop. Now I have a >smba cd from oreilly book publishing. If it was windows I pop the cd in, >installshield starts, i reboot then, whammy, i have samba. Now I have to rpm >or tar something..???Actually the problem is that you seem to have confused three different potential methods of installing something. I don't know if Susu uses the Redhat Package Manager (aka "RPM" a useful system for installing/un-installing/upgrading programs very easily and cleanly. . . Included in Redhat Linux of course but also many other distributions), but either way you could install Samba by downloading the latest source, if you got it on a cd with a book this probably means the version you have is fairly seriously outdated due to publishing/shipping delays, the latest Samba version is 2.0.7 and you can grab it from one of the samba.org ftp sites (or mirror thereof). Assuming you're installing from source code what you should do is: 1. Download the source code (called samba-[something].tar.gz). This is a tar'd (short for "Tape archived" basically means "contatenated") file which has been compressed with gzip, so you: 2. Decompress the archive by running "gunzip samba*.gz" 3. Extract the actual source files "tar -xvf samba-comething.tar" 4. cd into the directory that tar created (probably just like the filename but without the ".tar" extension) and run the configure script. At this point you should already have decompressed the source docs which will be in the same directory (or a sub-dir called "doc" or "docs" or some such obvious name) so you can read the detailed installation instructions from that point on (basically it will involve running a configure script to prepare the source files for your particular system and then compiling the actual program and copying the files into apropriate locations on your system). IF Suse has a copy of RPM on it you have the (much easier) option of installing Samba from a pre-built RPM file (so grab the latest samba-whatever.rpm from a samba.org ftp site or mirror thereof) and then run the command "rpm -Uvh samba*.rpm" and it's installed. It may also have some other package manager you might want to use, but RPM is the only one I can help with. Since your problem is more of an Suse problem than a Samba problem, you could probably get a better answer on a Suse mailing list. Am willing to come to your office and show you if 1) you're in Nova Scotia or 2) You'll cover my travel expenses ;-) -- Who is this General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk?
IMHO, Suse 6.4 has the latest Samba version already included so you can just start up YaST and install it from there (series n - network, package samba). Cheers, Martin Brecher On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 01:19:43 -0400 (EDT), kevin brown wrote:>OK, so installed suse linux 6.4 and have a neat kde desktop. Now I have a >smba cd from oreilly book publishing. If it was windows I pop the cd in, >installshield starts, i reboot then, whammy, i have samba. Now I have to rpm >or tar something..??? >If somebody tells me how to install a program onto linux I will mail the >first person with the most complete instructions $20. >No joking, I just don't get it, installing a program in linux. Come to my >office and give me two hours of linux lessons and I'll give you $30 ! >no joking, serious offers only. >I am a very experienced winnt,win9X service tech, and can fix about anything >you throw me. >kevin > > > > >-- 'Early' presumably means the first week of January - Intel's traditional time for pissing off folks who have bought Xmas PCs only to find them outdated a couple of weeks later. --- 'Celeron gets 100 MHz FSB in Q1 2001' - The Register -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. mQGhBDlYr8wRBADgypwMlhfpoFcktD3bPmDqXZTcFLeq9BGHJ+qOvPpgrEpDLXP5 htt6qCwAcyyE/kjk70JDD0FkU/Ylzz+Any0AAow/X9Xgdf5eCjcjNR5L3kaXDCfr Hl+tWohmXGTmrT6UAPlY16LO2afIUVZRLUuvuZN0489RW+/RoHqxewvPnQCg/y5+ 28fK9lvqQHv9fnqSn11wLBMD9iOl4siqOFtOJ0rHwtQap02LhYyhu4ygPs/uHxV5 ZbnZzy24vAldtxDB9XbNJ6+9IGVik3YX2V8eUGHsAb3le0DqeeNzsZ1mT3y3dylJ /prX+pHDbPkYmPGmkd7Afu9EVwf5K8vxRlCmW90uL2PsVyfCBg2gqVKbJM2YDXgj 1T4D/2Z7CUedqUmP37fmYfVGFukzs+6HQUzlymgWaOuD4ITImMAdITggtCMeZoPo YMWqTSevQKVybHxxT0SoPGVK15Muk9jPsDuEmsR8b7bgLOYhKFEc1qj30HgdlGWh ZkH9l7XHE7dkVAMQNI/wqG8wQpLhQ+iTpMsd3NC+Om96hQi1tCFNYXJ0aW4gPG1h cnRpbkBTdHVwaWQtRGVzaWduLmNvbT6JAFcEEBECABcFAjlYr8wNCwMCAQAAAAAA AAAAAAIZAQAKCRC4y6QTjAg9aX7lAJ0YfktsAZTAOF+jvIqI/SPFu6YLAgCgzC9b cSeItIRTea1WxCZ9DJvFkdq5Ag0EOVivzRAIAPZCV7cIfwgXcqK61qlC8wXo+VMR OU+28W65Szgg2gGnVqMU6Y9AVfPQB8bLQ6mUrfdMZIZJ+AyDvWXpF9Sh01D49Vlf 3HZSTz09jdvOmeFXklnN/biudE/F/Ha8g8VHMGHOfMlm/xX5u/2RXscBqtNbno2g pXI61Brwv0YAWCvl9Ij9WE5J280gtJ3kkQc2azNsOA1FHQ98iLMcfFstjvbzySPA Q/ClWxiNjrtVjLhdONM0/XwXV0OjHRhs3jMhLLUq/zzhsSlAGBGNfISnCnLWhsQD GcgHKXrKlQzZlp+r0ApQmwJG0wg9ZqRdQZ+cfL2JSyIZJrqrol7DVekyCzsAAgIH /1mWOCJEdmfkvHSjq18HxEAPHke/vwF61DOMa9HsyO/xHiXPdcnShGDyRikasE7B /kfg/7iS5wA38mw2BRThfdZKLnqvF9C08suwpXGHjnMIHqdklzm4Jblwp+w0MTgO Y34sm2z4wCfXQ8eRqb90OnyU5wafOip4/OVavqOXIlBjR15fEZjjEEYV0KSfruM6 6bIZZYR0dX0/RO7wy8vQobPSEpLrSYs9TIRe+esB1wAZcwmwRtJxvMiKk6GMoZZ6 a/S4SVkmPLVV/eJ7W6eJTLmfhzX0cnLdqwR3EUBDOKRrot2nwKN+c0V5gp3751FW Q4KBDUKONkIun8E55KVjrN+JAEYEGBECAAYFAjlYr80ACgkQuMukE4wIPWm3QACe JchZl59MORrD/nfym06c7Ny3hCkAnRM3eJBEc08okNuq9pXu12Cvj3HS =39bI -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 91BF 81EA A79B F5CE 1C13 A283 B8CB A413