Guys,

I'm trying to install SAMBA on a RHEL4 machine. Didn't install it on installation, but now we need it.

I've copied samba, samba-common, samba-client, samba-swat, openssl into the server and tried to run the installation via "rpm -ivh"

Problem is, or rather, it managed to detect the (lack of) dependencies and stop installation.

But how do I know what other rpm package to use to fulfil these dependcies? Is it possible to make it search for it... if I copy ALL the rpms into a directory of the server? Some kind of hot search of some sort...

and its for Samba... what else do I need?

Thanks people!

Yes you can do what you ask,

First you need a few things, get and install both yum and createrepo rpm packages from Dag Wieers's site; http://dag.wieers.com/packages/

Next create your repo location (lets call it /RHEL4 for now) on the hard drive and copy all the rpm files from the CD's or DVD media to this common location. Then from that location type something like; createrepo /RHEL4

When done you can then use this with yum but first you need to create a RHEL-MEDIA.repo file in /etc/yum.repo.d directory;

[rhel-media]
name=Red Hat-$releasever - Media
baseurl=file:///RHEL4
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0


Then you should be able to install samba and all the dependencies by simply typing something like; yum -y install samba samba-swat

ooh i have to do it with yum. but i understand yum don work with RHEL4?

I was actually refering to using the command 'rpm'

Yes yum does work with RHEL4, just not for updates from RHN. In fact the next version of RHEL will use yum for updates, so it might be a good idea to get used to using yum.

If you have a valid RHN subscription then use up2date to install samba. You can also use the package manager tool (system-config-packages) for RHEL4 to install samba if you have a GUI desktop installed.

Installing samba via rpm is possible, but takes a fair amount of work to figure out what additional packages are required and what they require, welcome to dependency hell!!! I have given you a good way to resolve this issue. please try it. The whole process takes less time is provides a very good tool for future usage.

hello swako,
Try using gui mode to insatall samba. through add and remove programs.
All u need to check the samba check box and update it.
Then linux will ask u for the particular cd's insert when required and i think that it will be done.

OR

1) Copy all the RPMS for samba into a folder
2) cd to that folder
3) run the following commands:
rpm -ivh samaba-3.0.10-*.rpm --aid --force.
4) this was the basic rpm required n then install samba-common and then samba-client and lastly system-config-samba.
5) this should work and dont forget to put in --aid in the command