On 2016-05-27 18:51, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> I've been looking at replacing my CentOS 6 with Devuan so I installed
> the beta in a VM. No problems.
> # uname -a
> Linux devuan 3.16.0.4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2 (2016-04-08)
> i 686 GNU/Linux
>
> I use backuppc to back up my network but it says there is a broken
> package. Turns out it is samba.
>
> # apt-get install samba
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> samba : Depends: samba-common (=2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2) but it is not
> going to be installed
> Depends: samba-common-bin (=2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2) but it is
> not going to be installed
> Recommends: attr but it is not going to be installed
> Recommends: samba-vfs-modules but it is not going to be
> installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
I ran into the same issue and downloaded samba-common from
debian-jessie:
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/all/samba-common/download
then installed it with dpkg -i <package> and then continue with apt-get
install samba
Devuan has and older version of this package, and it blocks the
installation.
> Steve
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Re: [DNG] samba broken?
