From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) Description of problem: When attempting to install Samba from the Package Management a dialog box states packages not found: The following packages could not be found on your system. Installation could not continue until packages are installed. Unlocatable package: Required by: Samba common 2.2.5 Samba and Samba- client. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch package management 2. Select Windows File Server 3. Select Update Actual Results: Receive error message dialog box: packages not found: The following packages could not be found on your system. Installation could not continue until packages are installed. Unlocatable package: Required by: Samba common 2.2.5 Samba and Samba-client. Expected Results: Should have installed packages not currently installed on system. Additional info: I had Samba installed on my initial install of the OS. I removed it because I didn't have any Windows OS on my network, but now I do.
Try downloading the samba-*2.2.7-5.8.0 packages that were released yesterday. Then install them with the command "rpm -Uvh samba*.rpm" as root in the directory where you downloaded the new packages. I suspect when you uninstalled Samba, you didn't uninstall all of the 2.2.5* packages. The new packages are based on 2.2.7, and the version mismatch probably confused the package manager. This isn't actually a Samba bug--it's a package manager bug.
Thanks Jay.
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.