Re: Could not find nfs package

[hce <webmail.hce@gmail.com>]

On 11/5/07, Owen Townend <bowbowbow@optushome.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:25 +1100, hce wrote:
> > Thanks Owen. To run nfs server, should I install both nfs-common and
> > nfs-user-server, or just nfs-common?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On 11/5/07, Owen Townend <bowbowbow@optushome.com.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:04 +1100, hce wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I got an error "E: Couldn't find package nfs" while trying to install
> > > > nfs server by calling "apt-get install nfs". Is the nfs wrong nfs
> > > > server package name?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you.
> > > >
> > > > Jim
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Hey,
> > >   Try `apt-cache search nfs`
> > >   It should return the correct package names.
> > >   One of these is probably what you're after:
> > >
> > > nfs-common - NFS support files common to client and server
> > > nfs-kernel-server - support for NFS kernel server
> > > nfs-user-server - User space NFS server
> > >
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Owen.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
> Hey,
>   nfs-kernel-server depends on nfs-common but I don't believe the
> userspace server does. Running `apt-get install nfs-user-server` will
> tell you of the dependancies and resolve them if it can. You can also
> use `apt-cache depend nfs-user-server` to find out.

Thanks  Owen, I installed nfs-user-server and added /etc/exports. But,
could not find exportfs in /sbin or /usr/sbin, I thought the exportfs
is included in nfs server packet, seems I got wrong. I did "apt-cache
search exportfs", nothing happend?

Thank you.

Jim