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Operating Systems AIX New to AIX need help Installing/Upgrading Samba on AIX 7.1? Post 302888752 by bakunin on Monday 17th of February 2014 06:55:32 AM

02-17-2014

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Originally Posted by c3rb3rus

However, I did find it using "lslpp -L | grep "samba" returns..

pware53.samba.rte

So I think at some point installed using installp??

Yes, it looks like this. Issue "lslpp" with the "-h" (history) switch to get a date when it was installed (just in case you are interested).

Quote:

Originally Posted by c3rb3rus

So my goal is to first uninstall the existing samba package (smbd, nmbd, winbindd) and installing the latest 3.6.22 from perlz.org.

My issue is, I have no idea how to install the package (noob to aix/unix) and i'd like to do this as clean as possible.

(btw: i suggest you do a "man smit", because this - using SMIT - is usually the easiest and fastest way for a non-AIX admin to get things done in AIX)

The easiest way is to do a "smitty remove" from the commandline. This brings up SMIT (system management interface tool) with the "removal of software" screen already preselected. All the fields marked with a "+" can be expanded with "PF4" (on some terminals "ESC"+"4" instead). Do this and a list of isntalled packages comes up from which you can select. Select more than one using "PF7" (ESC+7), then press ENTER to return to this screen. Yes/No fields can be selected using the TAB key. Finally press ENTER to do it.

TIP: set the "preview only"-field to "yes" to just simulate removal. All the check will be done normally and give errors in case something would go wrong. Once feeling safe change "preview" to "no" and proceed.

The Perzl software is very fine-grained and hence contains many dependencies. Read Michael Perzls solution to this. The real problem behind this is that IBM still uses an very very old (v3) rpm binary. rpm-v4 would be able to deal with software repositories.

Finally: install the *src* packages only if you plan on compiling new packages. Otherwise take the binary packages and install these. Compilation/configuration/etc. is already done and you do not have to bother with these.

I hope this helps.

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pk-debuginfo-install

PK-DEBUGINFO-INSTA(1)						  [FIXME: manual]					     PK-DEBUGINFO-INSTA(1)

NAME

       pk-debuginfo-install - Debugging Packages Installer

SYNOPSIS

       pk-debuginfo-install [--help] [--verbose] [--simulate] [--no-depends]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the pk-debuginfo-install command.

       pk-debuginfo-install is the command line client for installing debuginfo packages.

WHY DO I NEED DEBUGINFO PACKAGES
?
       When a program crashes, it's often useful to send the developer a backtrace which contains symbol names and variable contents, rather than
       memory addresses. To make this possible, extra packages called debug packages can be installed.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
       below.

       --help
	   Show summary of options.

       --noninteractive
	   Do not be interactive and skip the confirmation before the packages are installed.

       --verbose
	   Show extra debugging information.

       --simulate
	   Don't actually install any packages, only simulate what would be installed.

       --no-depends
	   Do not scan for, or install dependencies of the core packages.

       --quiet
	   Do not display information or progress to the terminal.

RETURN VALUES

       0
	   Success, at least one package was installed

       1
	   Failed with miscellaneous internal error.

       3
	   Failed to get software sources list.

       4
	   Failed to enable software sources.

       5
	   Failed as nothing to do.

       6
	   Failed to find dependent packages.

       7
	   Failed to install.

       8
	   Failed to disable software sources.

SEE ALSO

       pkmon (1).  pkcon(1).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Richard Hughes richard@hughsie.com.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009 Richard Hughes

[FIXME: source] 						   29 July,2009 					     PK-DEBUGINFO-INSTA(1)

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