Comment 5 for bug 1078251

I am unclear how to install just "samba" not "samba4". When I use

apt-get install samba

it automatically tries to install samba4.

On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 11:46 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 988509 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988509
>
> On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 09:25 +0000, chris legg wrote:
> > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 988509 ***
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988509
> >
> > Thank for the reply. I am still not clear what I should do to rectify
> > the situation. I have given up on samba some time ago. I am a new user
> > of Ubuntu, and initially had good communication with an Ubuntu laptop
> > plus windows machines in my home office, but then, following package
> > upgrades all communication failed. I no longer have a second Ubuntu
> > machine, but use windows laptops. I transfer all data between my main
> > (desktop) Ubuntu computer and desktops )for field use) by means of USB
> > sticks. The problem at the moment is that some of my GIS software (QGIS
> > and GDAL) cannot be upgraded because Samba is missing. I do not
> > understand why.
> You probably want the 'samba' package rather than the 'samba4' package.
> The 'samba4' package contains the experimental next version of Samba,
> and is still fairly broken in the version of Ubuntu that you are
> running.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
>