Trying to install from http://us4.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/Debian/dists/sarge/samba and get this error message: ---------------- sudo apt-build build-source samba ... ... ... Building the following packages from source: libpam-smbpass swat winbind smbfs samba-dbg smbclient python2.3-samba samba libsmbclient samba-common libsmbclient-dev samba-doc -----> Installing build dependencies (for samba) <----- Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Build-dependencies for samba could not be satisfied. -----> Downloading samba source (samba 3.0.23c-1) <----- -----> Updating package lists <----- Hit http://cvs.parisc-linux.org ./ Packages Ign http://cvs.parisc-linux.org ./ Release ... ... ... Reading Package Lists... Done Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 17.8MB of source archives. Get:1 http://us1.samba.org sarge/samba samba 3.0.23c-1 (dsc) [820B] Get:2 http://us1.samba.org sarge/samba samba 3.0.23c-1 (tar) [17.7MB] Get:3 http://us1.samba.org sarge/samba samba 3.0.23c-1 (diff) [112kB] Fetched 3B in 5s (1B/s) Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in samba-3.0.23c -----> Building samba <----- E: Unable to find a source package for samba Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/apt-build line 301. Can't chdir(samba-): No such file or directory at (eval 1) line 3 main::__ANON__('samba-') called at /usr/bin/apt-build line 301 main::build('samba', '3.0.23c', -1) called at /usr/bin/apt-build line 563 main::build_source called at /usr/bin/apt-build line 81
I think the upstream Debian packages are no longer maintained (3.0.26a-1 is pretty old). Please use Samba packages from Debian. Closing out bug report. Thanks!