samba - Dec 2005 - samba-latest.tar.gz cant be installed

Hullo all

I downloaded samba-latest.tar.gz and then extracted it using gzip -dc
samba-lcatest.tar.gz | tar xvf - but then i checked samba and they said
package not installed,so what should i do?

Thank you in advance

Stephen Akandwanaho.

On Thursday 29 December 2005 10:34, Stephen Akandwanaho
wrote:
> Hullo all
>
> I downloaded samba-latest.tar.gz and then extracted it using gzip -dc
> samba-lcatest.tar.gz | tar xvf - but then i checked samba and they said
> package not installed,so what should i do?
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-HOWTO.pdf

See chapters 40 and 1.

The source files are located in the source directory. The patch shown in the 
book is:

	cd samba-3.0.20
	./autogen.sh
	./configure
	make
	make install

The correct path is:

	cd samba-3.0.20/source
	./autogen.sh
	./configure
	make
	make install

- John T.