Sounds more like a corrupted dpkg than a Samba issue.
I think you will need to determine what's broken there before you can
fix the Samba install.
Dale
On 03/11/2010 12:06 AM, Larry and Sandi Miller wrote:> Long story short - very newbie on Linux. Loaded successfully Ubuntu9.10.
> Intrigued by Samba, tried to load newest version. Screwed up something, so
> tried to uninstall then re-install.
>
> Now getting "Could not launch samba" with message 'Failed to
execute child
> process "/usr/lib/samba/ldb/samba3sam.so" (no such file or
directory).
>
> Version is 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.4
>
>
>
> Noted directory does not exist on my machine.
>
> Tried aptitude reinstall samba. Message back 'samba is not currently
> installed so it will not be reinstalled.'
>
> Tried aptitude install samba. This appeared to work, but no joy when I
tried
> to launch it. Still got the message "the program 'samba' is
currently not
> installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install samba4."
>
> I do have a samb4 package in archive, however do not understand why
> samba3.xx appears to be installed, but isn't and I get the other noted
> messages. I want to install samba3.xx
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry
>
>