How To Install samba-libs on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-libs
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is samba-libs
samba-libs is:
Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems. Samba can also function as a domain controller or member server in both NT4-style and Active Directory domains.
This package contains the shared libraries.
There are three methods to install samba-libs
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-libs 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-libs
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install samba-libs
Install samba-libs Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install samba-libs
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install samba-libs
Install samba-libs 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-libs
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install samba-libs
How To Uninstall samba-libs on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the samba-libs
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove samba-libs
Uninstall samba-libs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall samba-libs
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove samba-libs
Remove samba-libs Configurations and Data
To remove samba-libs
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge samba-libs
Remove samba-libs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove samba-libs
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge samba-libs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-libs
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.