How To Install samba-common on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-common on Ubuntu 20.04. samba-common is common files used by both the Samba server and client common files used by both the Samba server and client common files used by both the Samba server and client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-common on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is samba-common

samba-common is:

Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems.

This package contains common files used by all parts of Samba. Task: samba-server, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop

Package: samba-common Architecture: all Version: 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: net Source: samba Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 307 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~) Depends: ucf, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 Recommends: samba-common-bin Filename: pool/main/s/samba/samba-common_4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8_all.deb Size: 69104 MD5sum: ae527835f819570e913ae678e3c1f7b8 SHA1: 33a4af908573b979ff0358fa47fa9a7be461c2a5 SHA256: ce80af83593fb9a843841c3bf69cf31be475d60968dd6d45ffe574cff8a6fbaf SHA512: 607f2143e56810beaf7d90d61bc605f4947f62f26454ff20675e751b362f504f8cb7156057821f7b822084296a7ae2c9718da04d90788f5ade50e4d41509702f Homepage: http://www.samba.org Description-en: common files used by both the Samba server and client Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems.

This package contains common files used by all parts of Samba. Task: samba-server, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop

Package: samba-common Architecture: all Version: 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: net Source: samba Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 305 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~) Depends: ucf, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 Recommends: samba-common-bin Filename: pool/main/s/samba/samba-common_4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 69780 MD5sum: e488c9c217e9048310304272e9fc084c SHA1: d208a79dd8da7024ce15a422edc0a67e39ee3d61 SHA256: 09909207fd0389e423301a4167ab5670bb30f25654e8142c8f79ae64d259f924 Homepage: http://www.samba.org Description-en: common files used by both the Samba server and client Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems.

This package contains common files used by all parts of Samba. Task: samba-server, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop

There are three methods to install samba-common on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install samba-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install samba-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install samba-common

Install samba-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install samba-common

Install samba-common Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install samba-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install samba-common

How To Uninstall samba-common on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove samba-common

Uninstall samba-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall samba-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove samba-common

Remove samba-common Configurations and Data

To remove samba-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge samba-common

Remove samba-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove samba-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge samba-common

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.