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Samba Installation in Ubuntu 7.10

Asked by Rajiv

Hai,
       I have installed Ubuntu 7.10 in my system. After that I installed my printer to the system. Then I tried to install Samba in my system. But after several attempts and modifications when I type
 $ sudo apt-get install samba
I get the error message " Couldn't find package samba"

      I am new to Ubuntu and do not know what have went wrong .

Please give me a solution.......

Thanx

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Vu Do Quynh (vu-do-quynh) said : 		#1

You can go to the software sources under System > administration and on the first tab (Software sources) check the repositories called universe and multiverse along with the main one.

After that upon closing the diaolog box you will be prompted to reload the list of packages (ou need an active internet connection for doing that).

After downloading all the package lists, the software sources will close itself it everything went OK (otherwise you will have messages about problems)

An alternative way is to do in the terminal sudo apt-get update (to load the list of packages from the active repositories)

Then you can do sudo apt-get install samba (and it should work)

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Thomas Krüger (thkrueger) said : 		#2

Did you really install version 7.10?
This version is not supported anymore and therefor outdated. Software repositories may not be available anymore.
Updates and installation may fail.

You should update to a newer version:
9.10 is recent and 8.04 is a version with long term support, both will be supported until 2011.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

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