[solved]Error messages installing Samba – packages could not be installed broken

[Member spaz]

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Error messages when installing Samba – packages could not be installed – broken packages
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Hi All.
Been using antix past fortnight, so far really enjoying it, thank you so much devs.
I have a lot of tweaks to make and stuff to learn,
but overall it is running really well on a low-spec system. Great work.

I am getting an error message when trying to install Samba as below.

error message from :
sudo apt install samba

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Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
samba : Depends: python3-samba but it is not going to be installed
Depends: samba-common-bin (= 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libwbclient0 (= 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5) but 2:4.17.4+dfsg-2~bpo11+1 is to be installed
Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5) but it is not going to be installed

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I tried installing all the dependencies mentioned – and received similar error messages to the original one.

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I read through this thread
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/how-to-fix-broken-packages-after-upgrade/

Unlike the guy in the thread, I have not added any repos (to my knowledge)
other than the following for brave browser (if that even counts as adding a repo – probably not) :

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
echo “deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main”|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install brave-browser

As suggested to the guy in the thread,
I tried :

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Then retried install of samba, which returned the same error message as the original :

$ sudo apt install samba
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
samba : Depends: python3-samba but it is not going to be installed
Depends: samba-common-bin (= 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libwbclient0 (= 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5) but 2:4.17.4+dfsg-3~bpo11+1 is to be installed
Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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I am hoping there is some option other than “reinstall your entire system”
as suggested to the guy in the thread I quoted 😛

As I mentioned –
I have not intentionally / consciously installed any repos, and this is something I try to avoid,
and very rarely do (and probably won’t do on this system).
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Thanks in advance for any assistance, and to anybody who is developing and participating in supporting such an awesome operating system.

[Member sybok]

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Hi
1) Please post your repositories, output of e.g. ‘inxi -Fzr’.
2) Please also post output of ‘apt-cache policy python3-samba’.

I suspect that the samba packages, repacked without systemd, are not currently correct in the repositories (you use).
Perhaps, @anticapitalista should be informed.

As a reference, antiX-testing I use outputs the below:
A) Install samba:

$ sudo apt install samba
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 python3-samba : Depends: python3-ldb (>= 2:2.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: python3 (>= 3.11~) but 3.10.6-3+b1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

B) Package candidates:

$ apt-cache policy samba python3-samba
samba:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2:4.17.4+dfsg-3.0nosystemd1
  Version table:
     2:4.17.4+dfsg-3.0nosystemd1 500
        500 http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/mxlinux/packages/antix/testing testing/nosystemd amd64 Packages
     2:4.17.4+dfsg-2 500
        500 http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
     2:4.13.14+dfsg-1.0nosystemd1 -1
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:4.6.5+dfsg-2.0nosystemd1 500
        500 http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/mxlinux/packages/antix/testing testing/main amd64 Packages
python3-samba:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2:4.17.4+dfsg-3.0nosystemd1
  Version table:
     2:4.17.4+dfsg-3.0nosystemd1 500
        500 http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/mxlinux/packages/antix/testing testing/nosystemd amd64 Packages
     2:4.17.4+dfsg-2 500
        500 http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages

Of course, the perils of using antiX|Debian-testing is that sometimes something gets broken.
This is expected not to occur in stable (frequently).
My inxi-output is attached.

• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by sybok. Reason: Fix inxi data

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1. INXItesting.txt

[Member Robin]

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For me in antiX 22 full 64bit (stable) (apt-upgraded from antiX 21, completely no elogind no systemd) nothing is broken.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install samba
Paketlisten werden gelesen… Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut… Fertig
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen… Fertig
samba ist schon die neueste Version (2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5.0nosystemd1).
0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 47 nicht aktualisiert.

$ apt-cache policy samba python3-samba
samba:
  Installiert:           2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5.0nosystemd1
  Installationskandidat: 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5.0nosystemd1
  Versionstabelle:
     2:4.17.4+dfsg-3~bpo11+1 100
        100 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports/main amd64 Packages
 *** 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5.0nosystemd1 500
        500 http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/antix/bullseye bullseye/nosystemd amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5 500
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security/main amd64 Packages
     2:4.6.5+dfsg-2.0nosystemd1 500
        500 http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/antix/bullseye bullseye/main amd64 Packages
python3-samba:
  Installiert:           2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5.0nosystemd1
  Installationskandidat: 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5.0nosystemd1
  Versionstabelle:
     2:4.17.4+dfsg-3~bpo11+1 100
        100 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports/main amd64 Packages
 *** 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5.0nosystemd1 500
        500 http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/antix/bullseye bullseye/nosystemd amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5 500
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security/main amd64 Packages

$ inxi -Fzr
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.142-antix.2-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: IceWM
    v: 3.3.0 Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P7P55-M v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <superuser required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 0903
    date: 07/09/2010
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3 540 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1951 min/max: 1200/3067 cores: 1: 2630 2: 1284 3: 2007
    4: 1883
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] driver: radeon
    v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: radeon
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: radeon resolution: 2048x1152~60Hz
  OpenGL:
    renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.10.142-antix.2-amd64-smp LLVM 11.0.1)
    v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: AMD Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300/7300 Series]
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.142-antix.2-amd64-smp running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.1 TiB used: 1.76 TiB (83.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Maxtor model: STM3250318AS size: 232.89 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk
    size: 58.59 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: External USB 3.0
    size: 1.82 TiB
Partition:
  Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 3.91 GiB used: 3.82 GiB (97.8%)
    dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.5 C mobo: 32.0 C gpu: radeon temp: 52.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1278 case-1: 1259
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
    1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/antix/bullseye bullseye main nosystemd nonfree
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye-backports.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info:
  Processes: 262 Uptime: 32d 12h 20m Memory: 7.76 GiB used: 7.03 GiB (90.6%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.19

Same result on 32bit antiX 22 (stable): Also no issues with default samba packages.

$ inxi -Fzr
System:
  Kernel: 5.19.0-0.deb11.2-686-pae arch: i686 bits: 32 Desktop: IceWM
    v: 3.1.0 Distro: antiX-21_386-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021
Machine:
  Type: Other-vm? System: Notebook product: RIM2000 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Notebook model: RIM2000 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Phoenix
    v: RIM00F0A date: 05/27/2005
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 59.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 59.2/65.1 Wh (90.9%)
CPU:
  Info: single core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 cache: 2 MiB note: check
  Speed (MHz): 800 min/max: 800/1733 core: 1: 800
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA NV43M [GeForce Go 6600] driver: nouveau v: kernel
  Display: server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: nouveau
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: nouveau resolution: 1440x900~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: NV43 v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: Philips s SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder
    driver: saa7134
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.0-0.deb11.2-686-pae running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Marvell 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet driver: sky2
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200
  IF: eth1 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 151.75 GiB used: 111.5 GiB (73.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9100823A size: 93.16 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk
    size: 58.59 GiB
Partition:
  Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2.16 GiB used: 988.7 MiB (44.7%)
    dev: /dev/sda9
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 62.1 C mobo: 52.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
    1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/antix/bullseye bullseye main nosystemd nonfree
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye-backports.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info:
  Processes: 183 Uptime: 69d 16h 23m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 1.28 GiB (65.2%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.19

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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On default antiX-21/22 ie with Debian bullseye repos, I see no issues

 apt install samba
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  python3-samba samba-common samba-common-bin tdb-tools
Suggested packages:
  bind9 bind9utils ctdb ldb-tools smbldap-tools winbind heimdal-clients
Recommended packages:
  python3-gpg attr samba-dsdb-modules samba-vfs-modules
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python3-samba samba samba-common samba-common-bin tdb-tools
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,741 kB of archives.
After this operation, 39.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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@Sybok – yes there is an issue on Testing. It needs some python3 packages that haven’t yet migrated from sid.

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[Member sybok]

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I wonder where the issue described by @spaz comes from.

@anticapitalista: Thanks for the all the info (on both stable and testing).
Fortunately, testing’s issue does not trouble me currently since I do not have samba installed. 🙂 Not sure about others.

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anticapitalista wrote:

@Sybok – yes there is an issue on Testing. It needs some python3 packages that haven’t yet migrated from sid.

Just to mention, samba 2.4.17.4 appears to install with no issues on antiX 22 SID/Bookworm/SID. So looks like fixes are on the way…
Samba version is 2.4.17 as settled for Debian 12 Bookworm release, but modified for Nosystemd.

• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by olsztyn.
• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by olsztyn.

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Member spaz]

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Hi sybok and everybody!
Wow, swift responses and active community.
Thanks so much for your assistance, pardon my slack response.
Long day, work, lack of sleep, etc. etc.

Also just fyi – the version of antix I am running is the latest full install, I pulled it through the torrent on the website just a fortnight ago or so. No repos added – only non-standard thing I’ve done is added the brave keyring and etc. as per original post.

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1) Output of e.g. ‘inxi -Fzr’.
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CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core2 Duo T6570 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
L2: 2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1582 min/max: 1200/2101 cores: 1: 1856 2: 1309
Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc
cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts est fpu fxsr ht ida lahf_lm lm
mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nopl nx pae pat pbe pdcm pebs pge pni pse
pse36 pti rep_good sep sse sse2 sse4_1 ssse3 syscall tm tm2 tsc vme xsave
xtpr
Repos:
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://mx.debian.nz/antix/bullseye bullseye main nosystemd nonfree
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye-backports.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list

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2) Output of ‘apt-cache policy python3-samba’.
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python3-samba:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5
Version table:
2:4.17.4+dfsg-3~bpo11+1 100
100 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports/main amd64 Packages
2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5 500
500 http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
500 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security/main amd64 Packages

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There are a few little learning curves for me in what is mentioned.
Anything further diagnostic I can try to work with is much appreciated.
I will try to return to this thread tomorrow in a more wakeful state hopefully.
Cheers!

• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by spaz.

[Member Robin]

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Please let us know the output of the command

apt-get --simulate purge libwbclient0

(It will show a list of all packages depending on the culprit of your quirks)
See:

spaz wrote:

Depends: libwbclient0 (= 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5) but 2:4.17.4+dfsg-2~bpo11+1 is to be installed

I reckon some other package installed on your PC forces this incompatible version of this package, and most probably it comes from your additional brave-browser repository, since no other people seem to be affected.

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Seems like the mirror for antiX is down or not up to date
Use Repo Manager to change it.
Or do so manually

https://antixlinux.com/antix-21-22-packages/

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Tiny tip.
For readerswho want speed and efficiency 🙂

apt takes -s flag for simulate so for less eager typing fingers

apt-get –simulate purge libwbclient0
can be reduced to
apt -s purge libwbclient0

apt-get is still kept working for compatibility but who knows how long.
Suggest better to get used to the shorter new syntax.

[Member Robin]

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Xunzi_23 wrote:

apt-get is still kept working for compatibility but who knows how long.

This is a misunderstanding of the apt command obviously.
From man apt you can learn apt is not a new syntax, but it is an alternative „end user interface” […] „and it may change behavior between versions”.

So if you like to see consistent results of your commands, you should prefer the „more specialized APT tools like apt-get and apt-cache”. These will not get removed soon, since they are also meant as a scripting interface, „as they keep backward compatibility as much as possible”, and removing them would break much code in many projects, while the end user apt command can’t be used as a stable replacement.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member spaz]

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Hi Robin and Anticapitalista. Thanks for your help.
Thanks everyone for your other suggestions and info / discussion.

I tried Anticapitalista’s suggestion :
I used repo manager to switch to another local repo destination.

I then ran sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade – (not part of your instructions, but I thought good to do after switching antix repo mirror).
(I selected default option for when I was queried on whether I wanted to upgrade various antix and DE upgrades).
….but still no luck installing Samba.

I might try again tomorrow, switching to another repo-mirror again, in case I am getting same problem on both mirrors.

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I’ve tried Robin’s diagnostic suggestion, below –
ie.

apt-get –simulate purge libwbclient0

Just fyi
I ran it as standard account and it gave this notice :

########################################
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
so don’t depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
########################################

…So I ran it as super user after – but it gave identical info to the initial output on the standard account.

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$sudo apt-get –simulate purge libwbclient0
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libtalloc2 libtevent0
Use ‘apt autoremove’ to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
cifs-utils* connectshares-antix* libwbclient0*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 70 not upgraded.
Purg connectshares-antix [0.3.6]
Purg cifs-utils [2:6.11-3.1+deb11u1]
Purg libwbclient0 [2:4.17.4+dfsg-2~bpo11+1]
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Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libtalloc2 libtevent0
Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
cifs-utils* connectshares-antix* libwbclient0*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 70 not upgraded.
Purg connectshares-antix [0.3.6]
Purg cifs-utils [2:6.11-3.1+deb11u1]
Purg libwbclient0 [2:4.17.4+dfsg-2~bpo11+1]
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Thanks again everyone for your help!

[Member Robin]

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Obviously for some strange reason on your system is already installed the libwbclient0 version from the backports (2:4.17.4+dfsg-2~bpo11+1):

spaz wrote:

Purg libwbclient0 [2:4.17.4+dfsg-2~bpo11+1]

Please try to downgrade this version to the default non-backport version. From your output is clear, no other programs than the standard antiX tools depend on this on your system, so there is no reason to have the version from the backports installed.
Try:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libwbclient0=2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5.0nosystemd1

Then try to install samba again. If the downgrade was successful, the install should work now.

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[Member spaz]

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Thank you so much Robin!
This seems to have worked (: YAY!
HAPPY DAYS (:
Thank you everybody for your assistance and input.

Now I have some research to do to try to understand all these things a bit more.
Any pointers on how you diagnosed this?

When I search the libwbclient0 version,
I get this page,
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/libwbclient0
and I see it that :
libwbclient0 [2:4.17.4+dfsg-2
is an unofficial port, as you say — (I have no idea how my install defaulted to that).

What topics should I learn or search for to understand and diagnose these things myself in future?
Debian Package management?
Understanding Debian Libraries?
Debian API?

What would give me a good understanding of Debian installation problems?
It looks like there is a lot of info on Debian Developers Corner
https://www.debian.org/devel/

Might be over my head, though –
I still have to learn C and C++

Anyway, thanks very much again!

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