How To Install samba-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is samba-common.noarch

samba-common provides files necessary for both the server and client packages of Samba.

We can use yum to install samba-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install samba-common.noarch.

Install samba-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install samba-common.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install samba-common.noarch

How To Uninstall samba-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the samba-common.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove samba-common.noarch

samba-common.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/logrotate.d
/etc/logrotate.d/samba
/etc/samba
/etc/samba/lmhosts
/etc/samba/smb.conf
/etc/samba/smb.conf.example
/etc/sysconfig/samba
/run/samba
/run/winbindd
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/samba.conf
/usr/share/man/man5/lmhosts.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/smbpasswd.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/samba.7.gz
/var/lib/samba
/var/lib/samba/lock
/var/lib/samba/private
/var/log/samba
/var/log/samba/old

References

• samba-common.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.