Krdytkyu

I am running Ubuntu Server 14.04.4 and I didn't install Samba with the original OS setup. I would like to install it now but I keep getting a error about broken packages. It appears that the main hangup is the samba-libs dependency. Its saying "Depends: libldb1 (< 1:1.1.25~) but 2:1.1.17-2 is to be installed" but I already have the latest libldb1 installed. I've tried almost everything I can google but maybe I'm overlooking something. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Here's whats happening:

root@MAILSVR:/etc/apt# sudo apt-get  install  samba

Reading package lists... Done 

Building dependency tree        

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: python-samba but it is not going to be installed

         Depends: samba-common-bin (= 2:4.3.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.2) but it is not going to be installed

         Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.3.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.2) but it is not going to be installed

         Recommends: samba-dsdb-modules but it is not going to be installed

         Recommends: samba-vfs-modules but it is not going to be installed 

         E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Here's what aptitude gives me:

root@MAILSVR:/etc/apt# aptitude install samba



The following NEW packages will be installed:

  libwbclient0{a} python-crypto{a} python-ldb{ab} python-samba{a} python-talloc{a} python-tdb{ab} samba samba-common{a} samba-common-bin{a} samba-dsdb-modules{a} 

  samba-libs{ab} samba-vfs-modules{a} tdb-tools{a} 

0 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 8,519 kB of archives. After unpacking 48.3 MB will be used.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 python-tdb : Depends: libtdb1 (= 1.3.8-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) but 1.3.8-2 is installed.

 samba-libs : Depends: libldb1 (< 1:1.1.25~) but 2:1.1.17-2 is installed.

 python-ldb : Depends: libldb1 (= 1:1.1.24-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) but 2:1.1.17-2 is installed.

The following actions will resolve these dependencies:





     Keep the following packages at their current version:

1)     python-ldb [Not Installed]                         

2)     python-samba [Not Installed]                       

3)     python-tdb [Not Installed]                         

4)     samba [Not Installed]                              

5)     samba-common-bin [Not Installed]                   

6)     samba-dsdb-modules [Not Installed]                 

7)     samba-libs [Not Installed]                         

8)     samba-vfs-modules [Not Installed]                  





     Leave the following dependencies unresolved:         

9)     samba-common recommends samba-common-bin           









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Samba-libs error:

root@MAILSVR:/etc/apt# apt-get install samba-libs

Reading package lists... Done



Building dependency tree       

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-libs : Depends: libldb1 (< 1:1.1.25~) but 2:1.1.17-2 is to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

The issue was with my package sources so I changed my /etc/apt/sources.list back to default with the help of repogen.simplylinux.ch

Then I ran these commands:

apt-get update

apt-get autoremove libtdb1 --purge

apt-get install libtdb1=1.3.8-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

apt-get install samba

Done. Thx for your assistance!

The same happened to me but none of the previous replies worked for me.... after searching for the solution for many hours I got this one to work properly:

sudo wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/109052...1.0.15_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i python-support_1.0.15_all.deb

Run:

sudo apt-get install samba

I'm using ubuntu server 16.04.1

Cheers

I solved it by this:

sudo apt-get install libwbclient0=2:4.3.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1 &&
sudo apt-get install samba

Eita!!!