How do i upgrade samba 2.2.8 to the newest 3 version? Is there some documentation about upgrading? I am new to linux/samba Setup is debian 3, Samba 2.2.8 Thnx, Giel
> How do i upgrade samba 2.2.8 to the newest 3 version? > > Is there some documentation about upgrading? > > I am new to linux/samba > > Setup is debian 3, Samba 2.2.8If you just finished installing debian, you're going to need to update your sources.list file among other things. By default debian only uses it's STABLE package repository which stays quite a ways behind technology. They do that because these packages are known to be good. The way to get ahold of cutting edge packages is to use unstable (which you should use with caution becasue so of these packages in this repository may have bugs or other problems). The best thing for you to do if you want 'the latest greatest' packages is to search for some howto's on apt. One catch I'll warn you about before you modify your sources.list, is that your cache size for apt, be sure to google on that too. I've run into all these problems and more and found that googling the issue, a few helpful pointers from friends, and at the very end of my rope, asking a mailing list has helped me solve most of my problems. Always remember to google for the answer first. You'll be suprised what you find sometimes. Jason
you'd still have to update your sources.list and the apt.conf for APT:CACHE-LIMIT google on adding entries to the sources.list (if you look at the file you'll see how easy it is (located /etc/apt/sources.list) you'll probably have to make the apt.conf with the one line i mentioned to get past the default cache limit. once you do that it's as simple as 'apt-get upgrade samba' i think is the correct syntax to upgrade one package. It's not hard after you learn the ins and outs. good luck Jason> Thnx for your answer > > For this question and many other linux questions I always google first > But after weeks of googling and no correct answers I tried the Samba > list > My problem at googling for linux is is that I don't know what the > correct google question is for my problem > Must I google for samba or must I google for apt or must I google for > debian > But nowhere a line of configuring samba 2.2.X to 3 or something like > that, the only lines I came up with were lines of experienced users that > only mention the main lines and not the lines before about which command > there should be used to accomplish something. > The options apt-get update and upgrade I tried but samba still stay at > the 2.2.8 version and won't upgrade to version 3 (which I need I think, > because of a network that consist of Windows xP pro en SBS server 2003 > (I use samba only for the fileserver) > So all I need is the step to upgrade "some" (in this case samba) > software on linux.