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Do we understand the concept of "dependencies"? samba-common is a dependency of backuppc ... That means you can't upgrade one without the other.
...not using apt anyway. You may be able to build the newer version of backuppc against your older version of samba-common. You may not be able to do so, as well.
Do we understand the concept of "dependencies"? samba-common is a dependency of backuppc ... That means you can't upgrade one without the other.
...not using apt anyway. You may be able to build the newer version of backuppc against your older version of samba-common. You may not be able to do so, as well.
i know samba-common is a dependency of backuppc. i'm currently running backuppc 3.1 with samba 3.0.28a.
on a separate machine, i want to upgrade backuppc 3.0 to 3.1, but it also wants to upgrade samba to 3.2.3. i don't want to upgrade samba. can't i prevent apt-get from doing this????
No. Have we tried to grasp the concept of "dependencies" yet?
if i'm already running samba 3.0.28a and backuppc 3.1 with no problems, then backuppc 3.1 is not dependent on samba 3.2.3 and therefore i should not have to upgrade samba to upgrade to backuppc 3.1.
Why don't you just grab the .deb and install it with dpkg? I'm pretty certain you can get it to ignore dependency issues. There are risks associated with this (like breaking your system), but it's your machine.
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