Specifically, I need to uninstall Samba.

I have just installled Suse 7.3 on a Sun Ultra 5 Sparc box. For some reason, I have been unable to get this version of Samba, the one that was installed during the install of Suse, working.

I spotted somewhere on the web an article from some chap who mentioned that he could not get this version of Samba working either. He added that he got Samba working by 'uninstalling' this version and re-installing version 2.1. (This one that is currently installed is 2.2 (I think)).

Having downloaded the samba-2.0.10-0.sparc.rpm I ran the command ....

rpm --install samba-2.0.10-0.sparc.rpm

This resulted in a page with almost 50 error messages. Here is one for example.....

file /user/bin/smbpasswd from install of samba-2.0.10-0.sparc.rpm conflicts with file from package samba-client-2.2.1a-29

Clearly, I need to uninstall the current package.

So, having now the name of the 'installed' package, I typed the following command....

rpm -e samba-client-2.2.1a-29

This resulted in the following error..

cannot remove /etc/samba - directory not empty

Must this be so difficult?

try to do an upgrade rather than an install

try:

rpm -Uvh samba-2.0.10-0.sparc.rpm

Also try this:

rpm --query samba

that should give you a list of packages that have the name samba in them. The error says that the directory isn't epmty, which means that there might be another samba package that has some files there.

Sfin

I tried

rpm -Uvh samba-2.0.10-0.sparc.rpm

..and I got the following error...

"error: failed depenpancies:
smbclnt is needed by samba-2.0.10.0"

I also try this:

rpm --query samba

This returned....

"package samba is not installed".

So now I cannot install it because it's 'directory is not empty', I can't uninstall it because rpm can't see it and I can't upgrade it because of some 'failed dependancies' error.

Go to www.rpmfind.net and download the smbclnt rpm package from there.

Then run
rpm -Uvh --test samba-2.0.10-0.sparc.rpm

RPM then lists all the packages you need to download and install in order to install Samba. If you ran rpm -Uvh --test samba-2.0.10-0.sparc.rpm and no dependancy errors show up you can start the installation with rpm -Uvh samba-2.0.10-0.sparc.rpm .