Comment 15 for bug 988509

Am 22/05/12 15:04, schrieb Vasil Krstevski:
> Hi!
>
> I uninstalled samba4, but Ubuntu 12.04 automatically suggest:
>
> The program 'samba' is currently not installed. You can install it by
> typing:
> sudo apt-get install samba4
>
>
> Shouldn't this be fixed in the repositories?
No, that is correct. The "samba" package does not provide a "samba"
binary of any sort. Although I guess it does add to the confusion.

Cheers,

Jelmer

> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Rick <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info. If this is the case, it's because Samba4 is either
>> in the distro of 12.04, or was part of an update download. I know for
>> sure, that I did not specifically download and install Samba4.
>>
>>
>> On 5/22/2012 8:28 AM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>> Unfortunately it looks like Samba4 is accidentally being installed by
>>> some people who are looking for the stable version of Samba (Samba 4 is
>>> still experimental, see the package description). I wonder if this is
>>> the case, and if so, how this is happening?
>>>
>>> I'm working on backporting this fix to precise - that seems useful
>>> anyway. Even with that, the server side of Samba 4 is still experimental
>>> and the version in precise will soon be obsolete.