missing libmemcache.so for samba.samba3 python module

[Claudio Luck]

This is on Ubuntu Precise 12.04

python-samba:
  Installed: 4.0.0~alpha17.dfsg1-2
  Candidate: 4.0.0~alpha17.dfsg1-2
  Version table:
 *** 4.0.0~alpha17.dfsg1-2 0
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
samba4-common-bin:
  Installed: 4.0.0~alpha17.dfsg1-2
  Candidate: 4.0.0~alpha17.dfsg1-2
  Version table:
 *** 4.0.0~alpha17.dfsg1-2 0
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Running samba-tool refuses to do anything useful by an ImportError for missing libmemcache.so

Looks like this library is provided as libmemcache.so.0.4.0 in libmemcache0 and as libmemcache.so in libmemcache-dev.
libmemcache0 has no /usr/lib/libmemcache.so

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/samba-tool", line 30, in <module>
    from samba.netcmd.domain import cmd_domain
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py", line 44, in <module>
    from samba.samba3 import Samba3
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/samba3/__init__.py", line 29, in <module>
    import passdb
ImportError: libmemcache.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

My workaroung is to manually install libmemcache-dev for now.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

We'll need to package the private memcache library that's included in Samba. libmemcache-dev is a completely different library, so while it may satisfy the linker, you'll most likely run into other issues if something in Samba actually tries to use it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package samba4 - 4.0.0~alpha17.dfsg2-1

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samba4 (4.0.0~alpha17.dfsg2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove more non-free IETF files. Closes: #547280
  * Rebuild for newer version of ldb.

 -- Jelmer Vernooij <email address hidden> Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:41:49 +0100