Re: What's up with "samba-client"?
David Krider <david@davidkrider.com> writes:
> I'm new to Debian, so please forgive me if this is an obvious
> thing. I'm still learning all about Debian's package management. I am
> trying to get the command `smbclient' loaded on my machine. `dpkg'
> shows this:
...
> `dselect' tells me that "samba" should include "smbclient," but doing
> a `dpkg -l samba' clearly shows that I don't have it. Further, it
> offers no such thing as "samba-client" to install.
(You mean 'dpkg -L samba'?) On my (unstable) machine, smbclient is in
its own package, named 'smbclient'. The 'samba' package appears to be
a *server*, and its description contains a listing of other related
packages.
> Second: When `dpkg -l' tells me there's a package that `dselect'
> doesn't appear to know about, what's *that* mean?
Probably that a package is mentioned in some other package's control
fields, but that it doesn't actually exist. In the particular case of
Samba, smbclient declares that it provides: samba-client, so if other
packages depended on samba-client smbclient could be used in its place.
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